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docs/scenarios/admin.rst

@@ -240,13 +240,13 @@ Chef
 Puppet
 ------
 
-`Puppet <http://puppetlabs.com>`_ is an IT Automation and configuration management
+`Puppet <http://puppetlabs.com>`_ is IT Automation and configuration management
 software from Puppet Labs that allows System Administrators to define the state of
 their IT Infrastructure, thereby providing an elegant way to manage their fleet of
 physical and virtual machines.
 
 Puppet is available both as an Open Source and an Enterprise variant. Modules are
-small,shareable units of code written to automate or define the state of a system.
+small, shareable units of code written to automate or define the state of a system.
 `Puppet Forge <https://forge.puppetlabs.com/>`_ is a repository for modules written
 by the community for Open Source and Enterprise Puppet.
 
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ how each node should be configured and sends it to the agent. The agent enforces
 change as prescribed in the catalog and sends a report back to the Puppet Master.
 
 Facter is an interesting tool that ships with Puppet that pulls basic facts about
-the System. These facts can be referenced as a variable while writing your
+the system. These facts can be referenced as a variable while writing your
 Puppet modules.
 
 .. code-block:: console
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ everytime the sshd configuration file is changed.
         hasrestart=> true,
     }
 
-For more information checkout `Puppet Labs Documentation <http://docs.puppetlabs.com>`_
+For more information, refer to the `Puppet Labs Documentation <http://docs.puppetlabs.com>`_
 
 Blueprint
 ---------

docs/scenarios/gui.rst

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ and deployable.
 Kivy is written in Python, based on OpenGL and supports different input devices
 such as: Mouse, Dual Mouse, TUIO, WiiMote, WM_TOUCH, HIDtouch, Apple's products and so on.
 
-Kivy is actively being developed by a community and free to use. It operates
+Kivy is actively being developed by a community and is free to use. It operates
 on all major platforms (Linux, OSX, Windows, Android).
 
 The main resource for information is the website: http://kivy.org

docs/scenarios/scientific.rst

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ IPython
 
 `IPython <http://ipython.org/>`_ is an enhanced version of Python interpreter,
 which provides features of great interest to scientists. The `inline mode`
-allow graphics and plots to be displayed in the terminal (Qt based version).
+allows graphics and plots to be displayed in the terminal (Qt based version).
 Moreover, the `notebook` mode supports literate programming and reproducible
 science generating a web-based Python notebook. This notebook allows you to
 store chunks of Python code along side the results and additional comments
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ NumPy is compatible with Python versions 2.4 through to 2.7.2 and 3.1+.
 Numba
 -----
 
-`Numba <http://numba.pydata.org>`_ is an Numpy aware Python compiler
+`Numba <http://numba.pydata.org>`_ is a NumPy aware Python compiler
 (just-in-time (JIT) specializing compiler) which compiles annotated Python (and
-Numpy) code to LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) through special decorators.
+NumPy) code to LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) through special decorators.
 Briefly, Numba uses a system that compiles Python code with LLVM to code which
 can be natively executed at runtime.
 

docs/scenarios/web.rst

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Web Applications
 ================
 
 As a powerful scripting language adapted to both fast prototyping
-and bigger projects, Python is widely used in Web applications
+and bigger projects, Python is widely used in web application
 development.
 
 Context
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ Werkzeug
 `Werkzeug <http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/>`_ is not actually a real framework, but
 rather a very powerful set of tools for building web applications. It provides
 URL routing utilities, request and response objects and a basic development
-server. It is mostly used where users need bigger flexibility for their
-application that is not commonly found in other web frameworks.
+server. It is mostly used where users need more flexibility for their
+application than is commonly found in other web frameworks.
 
 Support can be found on its `mailing list <http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/community/#mailinglist>`_.
 
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ variables <https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Vars.html>`_.
 Server Best Practices
 :::::::::::::::::::::
 
-The majority of self hosted Python applications today are hosted with a WSGI
+The majority of self-hosted Python applications today are hosted with a WSGI
 server such as :ref:`Gunicorn <gunicorn-ref>`, either directly or behind a
 lightweight web server such as :ref:`nginx <nginx-ref>`.
 
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Platform-as-a-Service
 
 Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a type of cloud computing infrastructure
 which abstracts and manages infrastructure, routing, and scaling of web
-applications. When using PaaS, application developers can focus on writing
+applications. When using a PaaS, application developers can focus on writing
 application code rather than needing to be concerned with deployment
 details.
 
@@ -327,8 +327,8 @@ Here some important html tags in Jinja2:
 
 
 
-The next listings is an example of a web site in combination with the tornado
-web server. Tornado is not very complicate to use.
+The next listings is an example of a web site in combination with the Tornado
+web server. Tornado is not very complicated to use.
 
 .. code-block:: python