diff --git a/doc/training-guides/lab001-control-node.xml b/doc/training-guides/lab001-control-node.xml
index e8b714da7f..75fa3385c0 100644
--- a/doc/training-guides/lab001-control-node.xml
+++ b/doc/training-guides/lab001-control-node.xml
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ iface eth2 inet dhcp</programlisting>
   <para><emphasis role="bold">SSH from HOST</emphasis></para>
   <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
-      <para>Create a SSH key pair for your Control Node. Follow the same steps as you did in the starting section of the article for your host machine.</para>
+      <para>Create an SSH key pair for your Control Node. Follow the same steps as you did in the starting section of the article for your host machine.</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
-        <para>To SSH into Control Node from the Host Machine type the below command.</para>
+        <para>To SSH into the Control Node from the Host Machine type the below command.</para>
         <para>
           <screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>ssh control@10.10.10.51</userinput></screen>
           <screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>sudo su</userinput></screen>
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ iface eth2 inet dhcp</programlisting>
     </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
   <para><emphasis role="bold">Keystone</emphasis></para>
-  <para>Keystone is an OpenStack project that provides Identity, Token, Catalog and Policy services for use specifically by projects in the OpenStack family.It implements OpenStack’s Identity API.</para>
+  <para>Keystone is an OpenStack project that provides Identity, Token, Catalog and Policy services for use specifically by projects in the OpenStack family. It implements OpenStack’s Identity API.</para>
   <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
       <para>Install Keystone packages:</para>
@@ -255,16 +255,16 @@ iface eth2 inet dhcp</programlisting>
     </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
   <para><emphasis role="bold">Glance</emphasis></para>
-  <para>OpenStack Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images.
+  <para>The OpenStack Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images.
     Glance has a RESTful API that allows querying of VM image metadata as well as retrieval of the actual image.</para>
   <para>VM images made available through Glance can be stored in a variety of locations from simple file systems to object-storage systems like the OpenStack Swift project.</para>
   <para>Glance, as with all OpenStack projects, is written with the following design guidelines in mind:</para>
   <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors</para>
+      <para>Component based architecture: Quickly adds new behaviors</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads</para>
+      <para>Highly available: Scales to very serious workloads</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Fault tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures</para>
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ flavor = keystone</programlisting>
   <para>Neutron is an OpenStack project to provide “network connectivity as a service" between interface devices (e.g., vNICs) managed by other OpenStack services (e.g., nova).</para>
   <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Install Neutron Server and the OpenVSwitch package collection:</para>
+      <para>Install the Neutron Server and the Open vSwitch package collection:</para>
       <para>
         <screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get install -y neutron-server</userinput></screen>
       </para>
@@ -441,10 +441,10 @@ connection = mysql://neutronUser:neutronPass@10.10.10.51/neutron</programlisting
   <para>Nova is written with the following design guidelines in mind</para>
   <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors</para>
+      <para>Component based architecture: Quickly adds new behaviors</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads</para>
+      <para>Highly available: Scales to very serious workloads</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Fault-Tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures</para>
@@ -566,10 +566,10 @@ osapi_volume_listen_port=5900</programlisting>
   <para>Cinder is an OpenStack project to provide “block storage as a service”.</para>
     <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Component based architecture: Quickly add new behaviors</para>
+      <para>Component based architecture: Quickly adds new behavior</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Highly available: Scale to very serious workloads</para>
+      <para>Highly available: Scales to very serious workloads</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Fault-Tolerant: Isolated processes avoid cascading failures</para>
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ osapi_volume_listen_port=5900</programlisting>
       <para>Recoverable: Failures should be easy to diagnose, debug, and rectify</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Open Standards: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven api
+      <para>Open Standards: Be a reference implementation for a community-driven API
       </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ rabbit_port = 5672</programlisting>
         </para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
-        <para>Finally, create a volumegroup and name it cinder-volumes:</para>
+          <para>Finally, create a volume group and name it <literal>cinder-volumes</literal>:</para>
         <para>
           <screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>dd if=/dev/zero of=cinder-volumes bs=1 count=0 seek=2G</userinput></screen>
           <screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>losetup /dev/loop2 cinder-volumes</userinput></screen>
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ rabbit_port = 5672</programlisting>
         </para>
       </listitem>
     <listitem>
- <para>Note: Beware that this volume group gets lost after a system reboot. If you dont want to do this step again ... make sure that you save the machine state and not shut it down.
+ <para>Note: Be aware that this volume group gets lost after a system reboot. If you do not want to perform this step again, make sure that you save the machine state and do not shut it down.
  </para></listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>Restart the Cinder services:</para>
@@ -686,13 +686,13 @@ rabbit_port = 5672</programlisting>
   <para>Horizon is the canonical implementation of OpenStack’s dashboard, which provides a web based user interface to OpenStack services including Nova, Swift, Keystone, etc.</para>
   <itemizedlist>
     <listitem>
-      <para>To install Horizon, proceed like this</para>
+<para>To install Horizon, proceed with the following steps:</para>
       <para>
         <screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get install -y openstack-dashboard memcached</userinput></screen>
       </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>If you don't like the OpenStack Ubuntu Theme, you can remove it with help of the below command:</para>
+      <para>If you do not like the OpenStack Ubuntu Theme, you can remove it with help of the below command:</para>
       <para>
         <screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>dpkg --purge openstack-dashboard-ubuntu-theme</userinput></screen>
       </para>