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diff --git a/Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst b/Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst
index 24a618e..d1db08b 100644
--- a/Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst
+++ b/Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 .. 1. Understand basic structure of a LaTeX document, its various document
 ..    classes and loading packages that add new features to the LaTeX system.
 .. #. Create a LaTeX document with a title and an abstract.
-.. #. Create numbered and non-numbered sections and subsections in a LaTeX
+.. #. Create numbered and non-numbered sections and sub-sections in a LaTeX
 ..    document.
 .. #. Create an appendix in a LaTeX document.
-.. #. Create a table of content in a LaTeX document.
+.. #. Create a 'table of contents' in a LaTeX document.
 
 .. Prerequisites
 .. -------------
@@ -18,22 +18,22 @@
 
      
 .. Author              : Harish Badrinath < harish [at] fossee [dot] in > 
-   Internal Reviewer   : 
+   Internal Reviewer   : Kiran Isukapatla < kiran [at] fossee [dot] in >
    External Reviewer   :
    Langauge Reviewer   : 
-   Checklist OK?       : <put date stamp here, if OK> 
+   Checklist OK?       : 26-Feb-2012
 
 Script
 ------
 
 .. L1
 
-{{{ Show the  first slide containing title, name of the production
+{{{ Show the  first slide containing the title, name of the production
 team along with the logo of MHRD }}}
 
 .. R1
 
-Hello friends and welcome to the tutorial titled "Basics of LaTeX and its 
+Hello friends and welcome to the tutorial on "Basics of LaTeX and its 
 document structure".
 
 .. L2
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to
 #. Create a LaTeX document with a title and an abstract.
 #. Create numbered and non-numbered sections and subsections in a LaTeX
    document.
-#. Create an appendix in a LaTeX document.
+#. Create an 'appendix' in a LaTeX document.
 #. Create a table of content in a LaTeX document.
 
 .. L3
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to
 
 .. R3
 
-Before beginning this tutorial,we would suggest having a working installation of
-LaTeX and suggest you to complete the tutorial titled "Introduction to LaTeX".
+Before beginning this tutorial, we would suggest having a working installation 
+of LaTeX and also complete the tutorial "Introduction to LaTeX".
 
 .. L4
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ LaTeX and suggest you to complete the tutorial titled "Introduction to LaTeX".
 .. R4
 
 We begin this tutorial with an example introduced in the previous tutorial.
-The text in the document is illustrative and can be replaced replaced by a 
+The text in the document is illustrative and can be replaced by a 
 single alpha-numeric character, for example. When done so, the resulting 
 document could be described as the shortest possible LaTeX input document, that
 creates an output file. It consists of 3 LaTeX commands and one line/character
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ The first line reads
 
 .. R5
 
-which more generally can be written as
+documentclass article, which more generally can be written as
 
 .. L6
 
@@ -99,13 +99,15 @@ which more generally can be written as
 
 .. R6
 
+documentclass parameters DocumentClass.
 Where documentclass is a LaTeX command.
 Parameters specify if you want to use a non default font size, for example.
 More specifically the parameters can be used to alter things like font size of 
 the document, paper size, two sided or single sided printing, etc, for each
 class, that is supported by LaTeX.
 
-The supported classes have a few differences, in how the content of the document is typeset.
+The supported classes have a few differences, in how the content of the document
+is typeset.
 
 .. L7
 
@@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ The supported classes have a few differences, in how the content of the document
 We now look at a hypothetical documentclass command.
 The command being shown on the screen, instructs LaTeX to 
 Create a new document of class report. The available classes are article, proc,
-report, book, slides, letter.
+report, book, slides and letter.
 12 pt: sets the font size of main font. Other are relatively adjusted. 10pt is
 the default. 
 a4paper: specifies the paper size
@@ -129,10 +131,11 @@ with a square in the margin
 
 .. R8
 
-This statement can be used optionally and is used to include packages, which are
-used to extend the LaTeX's capabilities. There are a number of packages that are
-included by default with LaTeX2 base distribution. You can use the texdoc
-command for accessing package documentation.
+The usepackage command is called with package name argument, prepended with
+optional parameters. It is included optionally in a LaTeX document, to include
+packages, which further extend the LaTeX's capabilities. There are a number of
+packages that are included by default with LaTeX2 base distribution. You can use
+the texdoc command for accessing package documentation.
 
 .. L9
 
@@ -142,7 +145,7 @@ command for accessing package documentation.
 
 We add the title, the author and the date to the document before the 
 \begin{document} directive. We compile the document to see if the details 
-appear in the document, but they donot.
+appear in the document, but they do not.
 
 .. L10
 
@@ -151,8 +154,10 @@ appear in the document, but they donot.
 .. R10
 
 The command \maketitle adds title, authors name and date to the output file.
-Of these only the date is optional. If date command is specified, then the given
-date is used else today's date is used. 
+Of these only the date is optional. The date command can be called with an 
+optional parameter. If the optional parameter is not provided, the date of 
+compilation of the LaTeX document is used. The parameter, if specified is used 
+to override this value.
 
 .. L11
 
@@ -160,10 +165,10 @@ date is used else today's date is used.
 
 .. R11
 
-The abstract command is used to insert abstract of a document, into the output
-file.Place it in the location, where you want your abstract to present in
-the document. It is available for the document classes article and report, but
-not book
+The abstract command is used to insert the abstract of a document, into the 
+output file.Place it in the location, where you want your abstract to present 
+in the document. It is available for the document classes article and report, 
+but not for the book class.
 
 .. L12
 
@@ -174,9 +179,9 @@ not book
 Titles chapters and sections are used to help the user find his or her way
 through your work. The following commands are available in the article class:
 section, subsection, subsubsection,  paragraph and sub paragraph. The default
-behavior is to use numbered sections. We can use un-numbered sections appending
-* to section command. If you want to split your document without influencing the
-section or chapter numbering use the part command.
+behavior is to use numbered sections. We can use un-numbered sections by 
+appending * to section command. If you want to split your document without 
+influencing the section or chapter numbering, use the part command.
 
 .. L13
 
@@ -194,8 +199,8 @@ file shown in the slide we notice that subsections are not numbered.
 
 .. R14
 
-We can change this behavior with the command setcounter , calling it as shown
-in the slide. 
+We can change this behavior with the setcounter command, calling it with 
+parameters shown on the slide.
 
 .. L15
 
@@ -203,12 +208,13 @@ in the slide.
 
 .. R15
 
-Appendix can be added to the document using \appendix command. any content after
-\appendix will be added to the appendix. In the report or book class, we have to
-use \chapter to indicate that the chapters are to be numbered as appendices.
+Appendix can be added to the document using \appendix command. Any content 
+after the \appendix command will be added to the appendix. In the report or 
+book class, we have to use \chapter command to indicate that the chapters are 
+to be numbered as appendices.
 
-similarly for the article class we have to use the section command to indicate
-that sections are to be numbered as appendices.
+Similarly for the article class, we have to use the \section command to indicate
+the sections that are to be numbered as appendices.
 
 .. L16
 
@@ -216,19 +222,15 @@ that sections are to be numbered as appendices.
 
 .. R16
 
-Lets add a Table of content to the document. The LaTeX command to add a TOC to a
-document is using \tableofcontents command and is placed at the point at which
-the table of content is to be placed. 
-
-Now, compile the document and look at the output document. It does not have the table of contents!
-
-We compile our LaTeX file as usual. On the first compilation only the "Contents"
-heading appears in the document, but the actual table does not appear. You will
-need to compile your document once more, for the actual table to appear in your
-document. On the first run, LaTeX has gone through your document and generated
-a temporary file (.toc), with the entries that should go into the table of 
-contents. These entries are made, when you compile your document for the second
-time.
+We use the \tableofcontents command to add a TOC to a document is and is placed
+at the point at which the table of content is to be placed. It must be noted 
+that \tableofcontents command requires the LaTeX input file to be compiled 
+twice. On the first compilation only the "Contents" heading appears in the 
+document, but the actual table does not appear. LaTeX has now gone through 
+the input document and generated a temporary file (.toc), with the entries that
+should go into the table of contents. When the input document is compiled for 
+the second time, these entries are made and the actual table will appear in 
+your output document. 
 
 Note that any section/block that has been numbered automatically appears in the
 table of contents. It is possible to get un-numbered sections, for instance a
@@ -241,9 +243,9 @@ Preface or a Foreword section to appear in the Table of Contents.
 .. R17
 
 Un-numbered sections are added to TOC using \addcontentsline command.
-For example we use the command
-\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Intro}
-where "Intro" is the text that you want to appear in the Table of contents.
+For example we use the addcontentsline command called with the parameters
+"{toc}{section}{Intro}", for the text "Intro" to appear in the Table of 
+contents.
 
 .. L18
 
@@ -251,8 +253,8 @@ where "Intro" is the text that you want to appear in the Table of contents.
 
 .. R18
 
-Write a LaTeX script that creates a document of type article, which contains both
-a table of content and an appendix. The table of content should be at the 
+Write a LaTeX script that creates a document of type article, which contains
+an appendix and a table of contents. The table of content should be at the 
 beginning of the document and the appendix at the end.
 
 The book should contain two chapters, with the first chapter containing two 
@@ -299,9 +301,9 @@ Here are some self assessment questions for you to solve
 and produces the intended result, that is to produce a book with two chapters 
 and an appendix.
 
- 2. subsection command can be placed at any arbitrary level. If they get numbered 
-by default using the appropriate setcounter command and secnumdepth parameter,
-do they automatically appear in the table of content ??
+ 2. subsection command can be placed at any arbitrary level. If they get 
+numbered by default using the appropriate setcounter command and secnumdepth 
+parameter, do they automatically appear in the table of content ??
 
 .. L22
 
@@ -311,9 +313,10 @@ do they automatically appear in the table of content ??
 
 And the answers,
 
-1. Although the given file looks syntactically valid, the output file is not what
-we expected. This is mainly because we are trying to use the section command to
-create sections in the appendix, for a document whose type is given as a book.
+1. Although the given file looks syntactically valid, the output file is not 
+what we expected. This is mainly because we are trying to use the section 
+command to create sections in the appendix, for a document whose type is given
+as a book.
 
 2. No, the \tableofcontents command normally shows only numbered section
 headings, and only down to the level defined by the tocdepth counter.