diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The open-source platform for monitoring and observability.
 
 Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data driven culture:
 
-- **Visualize:** Fast and flexible client side graphs with a multitude of options. Panel plugins for many different way to visualize metrics and logs.
+- **Visualize:** Fast and flexible client side graphs with a multitude of options. Panel plugins offer many different ways to visualize metrics and logs.
 - **Dynamic Dashboards:** Create dynamic & reusable dashboards with template variables that appear as dropdowns at the top of the dashboard.
 - **Explore Metrics:** Explore your data through ad-hoc queries and dynamic drilldown. Split view and compare different time ranges, queries and data sources side by side.
 - **Explore Logs:** Experience the magic of switching from metrics to logs with preserved label filters. Quickly search through all your logs or streaming them live.
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
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@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Yarn >= 1.22.4
 
 ## Build the doc site
 
-1. In the command line, make sure you are in the docs folder: `cd docs`.
-1. Run `make docs`. This launches a preview of the docs website at `http://localhost:3002/docs/grafana/latest/` which will refresh automatically when changes to content in the `sources` directory are made.
+1. On the command line, first change to the docs folder: `cd docs`.
+1. Run `make docs`. This launches a preview of the docs website at `http://localhost:3002/docs/grafana/latest/` which will refresh automatically when changes are made to content in the `sources` directory.
 
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@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ Images are currently hosted in the grafana/website repo.
 
 ## Deploy changes to grafana.com
 
-When a PR is merged to master with changes in the `docs/sources` directory, those changes are automatically synched to the grafana/website repo and published to the staging site.
+When a PR is merged to master with changes in the `docs/sources` directory, those changes are automatically synced to the grafana/website repo and published to the staging site.
 
-Generally, someone from marketing will publish to production each day, so as long as the sync is successful your docs edits will be published. Alternatively, you can refer to [publishing to production](https://github.com/grafana/website#publishing-to-production-grafanacom) if you'd like to do it yourself.
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+Generally, someone from marketing will publish to production each day: so as long as the sync is successful your docs edits will be published. Alternatively, you can refer to [publishing to production](https://github.com/grafana/website#publishing-to-production-grafanacom) if you'd like to do it yourself.