diff --git a/source/meta/practices.txt b/source/meta/practices.txt
index ab228017c8c..a0ab1008b57 100644
--- a/source/meta/practices.txt
+++ b/source/meta/practices.txt
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ methods:
   You may also provide comments directly on commits, or on the pull
   request itself but these commit-comments are archived in less
   coherent ways and generate less useful emails, while comments on the
-  pull request lead to less specific changes to the document. '
+  pull request lead to less specific changes to the document.
 
 - Leave feedback on Jira cases in the `DOCS
   <http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/DOCS>`_ project. These are better