diff --git a/docs/url_dispatch.txt b/docs/url_dispatch.txt
index fe7c697f8a..402b1200b5 100644
--- a/docs/url_dispatch.txt
+++ b/docs/url_dispatch.txt
@@ -564,11 +564,11 @@ code, Django provides the ``django.core.urlresolvers.reverse()``. The
 
     reverse(viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, kwargs=None)
 
-The view name is either the function name (either a function reference, or the
+``viewname`` is either the function name (either a function reference, or the
 string version of the name, if you used that form in ``urlpatterns``) or the
-`URL pattern name`_.  Normally you will not need to worry about the
+`URL pattern name`_.  Normally, you won't need to worry about the
 ``urlconf`` parameter and will only pass in the positional and keyword
-arguments to use in the url matching.  For example::
+arguments to use in the URL matching. For example::
 
     from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse