diff --git a/content/nb_collectives_intro.tex b/content/nb_collectives_intro.tex
index eba20a48..6ff5db01 100644
--- a/content/nb_collectives_intro.tex
+++ b/content/nb_collectives_intro.tex
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 and broadcast collectives. All other collective operations such as
 reductions, collect, fcollect, barrier, barrier all, alltoalls, sync, and sync all will not have nonblocking variants.
 
-\item Completion semantics:  \openshmem programs can learn the status of the collective operations
+\item Completion semantics: \openshmem programs can learn the status of the collective operations
 using the \FUNC{shmem\_req\_test} routine. The operation is completed after
 a call to \FUNC{shmem\_req\_test} or a call to \FUNC{shmem\_req\_wait}.
 
diff --git a/content/shmem_broadcast_nb.tex b/content/shmem_broadcast_nb.tex
index 215fe5ad..ce2bc2bb 100644
--- a/content/shmem_broadcast_nb.tex
+++ b/content/shmem_broadcast_nb.tex
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@
     Upon completion of a nonblocking broadcast routine, the following are true for the local
     \ac{PE}:
     \begin{itemize}
-    \item The \dest{} data object is
-      updated.
-    \item The data has been copied out of the \source{} data object.
+    \item The \dest{} data object is updated.
+    \item If the local \ac{PE} is \VAR{PE\_root}, the data has been copied
+          out of the \source{} data object.
     \end{itemize}
 }