diff --git a/scribble-doc/scribblings/scribble/how-to-paper.scrbl b/scribble-doc/scribblings/scribble/how-to-paper.scrbl
index a15d190b..624dcbc3 100644
--- a/scribble-doc/scribblings/scribble/how-to-paper.scrbl
+++ b/scribble-doc/scribblings/scribble/how-to-paper.scrbl
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ What if you want to provide arguments in text mode, but you also want
 to supply other optional arguments? You can use both
 @litchar{[}...@litchar{]} and @litchar["{"]...@litchar["}"] for an
 operation, as long as the @litchar{[}...@litchar{]} is first, and as
-long as no character separate the closing @litchar{]} from the
+long as no characters separate the closing @litchar{]} from the
 opening @litchar["{"]. For example, calling @racket[italic] is the
 same as using @racket[elem] with the @racket['italic] style:
 
@@ -679,4 +679,4 @@ need more power.
 
 If you are interested in text generation and preprocessing, continue
 with @secref["reader"], but then switch to
-@other-doc['(lib "scribblings/scribble/scribble-pp.scrbl")].
\ No newline at end of file
+@other-doc['(lib "scribblings/scribble/scribble-pp.scrbl")].