Greetings ZIO community,

I've been making a close-reading pass through ZIO core docs, with my text editor close at hand. I find them to be in good shape "in the large"—comprehensive coverage, organization—but to have a lot of speed bumps in the small that I could improve as I go. Style and phrasing are subjective, grammar & syntax are more objective, so I will try to separate these types of changes into PRs that are likely to warrant more or less discussion, respectively.

If still smaller patches would be preferred, let me know.

This one is a first pass of a few sections/chapters on the objective front. Some minor rephrasing may creep in if it fell on the same line as a grammar fix, usually attempting to be more concise, reducing wordiness or repetition.

Disclaimer: I am not a credentialed technical writer, I sometimes might not be able to give better rationale than "it just sounds odd to me as a native English speaker…" 😅

Also, friendly reminder that GitHub has the "rich diffs" toggle that can be useful for reviewing lots of prose changes.