diff --git a/doc/arch-design/generalpurpose/section_architecture_general_purpose.xml b/doc/arch-design/generalpurpose/section_architecture_general_purpose.xml
index b4b34fdd73..207fe02cf7 100644
--- a/doc/arch-design/generalpurpose/section_architecture_general_purpose.xml
+++ b/doc/arch-design/generalpurpose/section_architecture_general_purpose.xml
@@ -67,10 +67,6 @@
             Operations Per Second (<glossterm>IOPS</glossterm>)
           </para>
         </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-          </para>
-        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     <para>Server hardware is evaluated around four conflicting
         dimensions.</para>
@@ -545,7 +541,7 @@
                 is important to consider the networking implications
                 on API availability. In order to ensure that the APIs,
                 and potentially other services in the cloud are highly
-                available, we recommend you design load balancing
+                available, we recommend you design a load balancing
                 solution within the network architecture to
                 accommodate for these requirements.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -806,7 +802,7 @@
     </section>
     <section xml:id="network-focused-workloads">
       <title>Network-focused workloads</title>
-    <para>In a network-focused OpenStack cloud some design choices can
+    <para>In a network-focused OpenStack cloud, some design choices can
         improve the performance of these types of workloads.
         Network-focused workloads have extreme demands on network
         bandwidth and services that require specialized consideration