diff --git a/doc/user/intro/intro.txt b/doc/user/intro/intro.txt
index 0d0ebf2fb..eac55e22f 100755
--- a/doc/user/intro/intro.txt
+++ b/doc/user/intro/intro.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ important to note that by ``professional'' we do not necessarily imply
 ``commercial'' or even ``industrial''.  We do, however, wish to suggest an
 attitude or frame of mind in how an approach to such work is made.
 
-Professionalism implies _doing work with sincerity and not being subject to any
+Professionalism implies _doing work with sincerity and being subject to any
 kind of wider goal, demand, or purpose._ When it comes to editing film, this
 wider goal, demand, or purpose might be artistry, a narration or have meaning to convey,
 a political message or commercial revenue -- it might be something to reveal to