Merge pull request #190 from sickwiz/new-branch

updated README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md

Author: fitzgen

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 We're so glad you're interested in contributing to Rust! You're in the right
 place if you want to make your own contributions to the `rustwasm/book` project.
 If you have an idea for making this document or anything else contained in the 
-`rustwasm/book` project more useful, you can help by following the steps below.
+`rustwasm/book` project more useful, you can help us by following the steps below.
 
 ## Filing an Issue
 
-If you're using this `book` and come across out of date information, examples 
-that don't work, or anything else that's wrong, you can help by filing an issue.
+If you're using this `book` and come across obsolete information, examples 
+that don't work, or anything else that's wrong, you can help us by filing an issue.
 
 First, review the [Code of Conduct][coc]. Then check the
 [open issues][open-issues] to see if someone is having 
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ skip to the section below about submitting a PR! If you don't, please chime in o
 issue comment thread so that the people working on the project have a better sense of
 how many people are experiencing the issue.
 
-This is a documentation and education project, so discussion about how to improve
-the experience for beginning users are particularly welcome. We greatly value the 
-perspective of new users. If you found something was confusing please file an issue
+This is a documentation and education project, so discussions about how to improve
+the experience for beginners are particularly welcome. We greatly value the 
+perspective of new users. If you found something that was confusing, please file an issue
 [here][new-issues]. Please fill out the template to give the
 people addressing your issue as much information as possible.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Pull requests are welcome to address all issues, whether you filed them or not!
 you have an idea for contributing or a problem you want to solve, please do 
 go through the process outlined above for opening an issue before you open
 a pull request. It helps everyone to discuss progress on the repo collaboratively,
-and to avoid duplicate work.
+and avoids redundancy.
 
 ## Conduct
 

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <h1>The Rust and WebAssembly Book</h1>
 
-  <strong>This small book describes how to use Rust and WebAssembly together and has a tutorial with exercises.</strong>
+  <strong>This small book describes how to use Rust and WebAssembly together.  It also consists of tutorials with cool exercises.</strong>
 
   <h3>
     <a href="https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/">Read the Book</a>
@@ -18,11 +18,10 @@
 ## About
 
 This repo contains documentation on using Rust for wasm, common workflows, how
-to get started and more. It acts as a guide for how to do some neat things with
-it.
+to get started and more as you dive deeper. It acts as a guide for doing some really neat things with rust.
 
-If you would like to start learning how to use Rust and WebAssembly together
-immediately, you can read the book [online here][book].
+If you would like to start learning how to use Rust and WebAssembly together,
+ you can read the book [online here][book].
 
 [Open issues for improving the Rust and WebAssembly book.][book-issues]