diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # Contributors
 
-Original author : Chris Done ( chrisdone )
+Author : Chris Done ( chrisdone )
 
-Current maintainer : Marco Zocca ( ocramz )
+Maintainer : Marco Zocca ( ocramz )
 
 ## In chronological order :
 
 Andreas Ekeroot ( Rembane )
+
 Kirill Zaborsky ( qrilka )
 
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@
 
 ## Features
 
-* It's a SAX-style/fold parser which triggers events for open/close
+* SAX-style/fold parser which triggers events for open/close
   tags, attributes, text, etc.
-* It uses low memory (see memory benchmarks below).
-* It's very fast (see speed benchmarks below).
+* Low memory use (see memory benchmarks below).
+* Very fast (see speed benchmarks below).
 * It
   [cheats like Hexml does](http://neilmitchell.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/new-xml-parser-hexml.html)
   (doesn't expand entities, or most of the XML standard).
-* It's written in pure Haskell.
+* Written in pure Haskell.
 * CDATA is supported as of version 0.2.
 
 Please see the bottom of this file for guidelines on contributing to this library.
diff --git a/src/Control/Spork.hs b/src/Control/Spork.hs
--- a/src/Control/Spork.hs
+++ b/src/Control/Spork.hs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import Control.Exception
 import System.IO.Unsafe
 
--- | Evaluate a and return left if it throws an pure exception.
+-- | Evaluate `a` and return left if it throws a pure exception.
 spork
   :: Exception e
   => a -> Either e a
diff --git a/xeno.cabal b/xeno.cabal
--- a/xeno.cabal
+++ b/xeno.cabal
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name: xeno
-version: 0.3.2
+version: 0.3.3
 synopsis: A fast event-based XML parser in pure Haskell
-description: Please see README.md          
+description: A fast, low-memory use, event-based XML parser in pure Haskell.  
 build-type: Simple
 category: XML, Parser
 cabal-version: >=1.10