diff --git a/source/includes/ref-toc-method-constructor.yaml b/source/includes/ref-toc-method-constructor.yaml
index 925b459e7d5..7eba63b34a3 100644
--- a/source/includes/ref-toc-method-constructor.yaml
+++ b/source/includes/ref-toc-method-constructor.yaml
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ description: "Displays the string representation of an :term:`ObjectId`."
 ---
 name: ":method:`ObjectId.valueOf()`"
 file: /reference/method/ObjectId.valueOf
-description: "Displays the ``str`` attribute of an ObjectId as a hexadecimal."
+description: "Displays the ``str`` attribute of an ObjectId as a hexadecimal string."
 ...
diff --git a/source/includes/ref-toc-method-cursor.yaml b/source/includes/ref-toc-method-cursor.yaml
index bdc74f7bc1c..a51c6e669e4 100644
--- a/source/includes/ref-toc-method-cursor.yaml
+++ b/source/includes/ref-toc-method-cursor.yaml
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ description: "Forces MongoDB to use a specific index for a query."
 ---
 name: ":method:`cursor.limit()`"
 file: /reference/method/cursor.limit
-description: "Constrains the size of a cursors result set."
+description: "Constrains the size of a cursor's result set."
 ---
 name: ":method:`cursor.map()`"
 file: /reference/method/cursor.map
-description: "Applies a function to each document in a cursor collecting the return value in an array."
+description: "Applies a function to each document in a cursor and collects the return values in an array."
 ---
 name: ":method:`cursor.max()`"
 file: /reference/method/cursor.max
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ description: "Returns the number of documents left in the current cursor batch."
 ---
 name: ":method:`cursor.readpref()`"
 file: /reference/method/cursor.readPref()
-description: "Specifies a :term:`read preference` to a cursor to control the client directs queries to a :term:`replica set`."
+description: "Specifies a :term:`read preference` to a cursor to control how the client directs queries to a :term:`replica set`."
 ---
 name: ":method:`cursor.showDiskLoc()`"
 file: /reference/method/cursor.showDiskLoc
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ description: "Returns a cursor that begins returning results only after passing
 ---
 name: ":method:`cursor.snapshot()`"
 file: /reference/method/cursor.snapshot
-description: "Forces the cursor to return the index using the index on the ``_id`` field to prevent duplicate documents with regards to the value of the ``_id`` field."
+description: "Forces the cursor to use the index on the ``_id`` field to ensure that even with document movement, the cursor will return each document no more than once."
 ---
 name: ":method:`cursor.sort()`"
 file: /reference/method/cursor.sort
diff --git a/source/includes/ref-toc-method-database.yaml b/source/includes/ref-toc-method-database.yaml
index c55b34e47e3..d1a142b0ae4 100644
--- a/source/includes/ref-toc-method-database.yaml
+++ b/source/includes/ref-toc-method-database.yaml
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ description: "Copies a database from a remote host to the current host. Wraps :d
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.commandHelp()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.commandHelp
-description: "Returns help information a :term:`database command`."
+description: "Returns help information for a :term:`database command`."
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.copyDatabase()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.copyDatabase
-description: "Creates a copy of a database within another database. Wraps :dbcommand:`copydb`."
+description: "Copies a database to another database on the current host. Wraps :dbcommand:`copydb`."
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.createCollection()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.createCollection
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ description: "Creates a new collection. Commonly used to create a capped collect
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.currentOp()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.currentOp
-description: "Reports the current in progress operations."
+description: "Reports the current in-progress operations."
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.dropDatabase()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.dropDatabase
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ description: "Allows writes to continue on a database locked with :method:`db.fs
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.getCollection()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.getCollection
-description: "Returns a collection object. Used to access connections with names that are not valid JavaScript."
+description: "Returns a collection object. Used to access collections with names that are not valid in the :program:`mongo` shell."
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.getCollectionNames()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.getCollectionNames
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ description: "Returns a document that reflects the current profiling level and t
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.getReplicationInfo()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.getReplicationInfo
-description: "Returns a document with replication statistics. See "
+description: "Returns a document with replication statistics. See :doc:`/reference/replication-info`"
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.getSiblingDB()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.getSiblingDB
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ description: "Prints a report of the sharding configuration and the chunk ranges
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.printSlaveReplicationInfo()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.printSlaveReplicationInfo
-description: "Prints a report the status of the replica set from the perspective of the secondary."
+description: "Prints a report of the status of the replica set from the perspective of the secondary."
 ---
 name: ":method:`db.removeUser()`"
 file: /reference/method/db.removeUser