diff --git a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/README.md b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/README.md
index 8f0fa462a8c5..9c439b83739c 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/README.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 [![CI](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
 
 
-This is a collaborative effort to build a guide that explains how rustc
-works. The aim of the guide is to help new contributors get oriented
+This is a collaborative effort to build a guide that explains how rustc works.
+The aim of the guide is to help new contributors get oriented
 to rustc, as well as to help more experienced folks in figuring out
 some new part of the compiler that they haven't worked on before.
 
@@ -21,25 +21,24 @@ For documentation on developing the standard library, see
 
 The guide is useful today, but it has a lot of work still to go.
 
-If you'd like to help improve the guide, we'd love to have you! You can find
-plenty of issues on the [issue
-tracker](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide/issues). Just post a
-comment on the issue you would like to work on to make sure that we don't
-accidentally duplicate work. If you think something is missing, please open an
-issue about it!
+If you'd like to help improve the guide, we'd love to have you!
+You can find plenty of issues on the [issue
+tracker](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide/issues).
+Just post a comment on the issue you would like to work on to make sure that we don't
+accidentally duplicate work.
+If you think something is missing, please open an issue about it!
 
 **In general, if you don't know how the compiler works, that is not a
 problem!** In that case, what we will do is to schedule a bit of time
 for you to talk with someone who **does** know the code, or who wants
-to pair with you and figure it out.  Then you can work on writing up
-what you learned.
+to pair with you and figure it out.
+ Then you can work on writing up what you learned.
 
 In general, when writing about a particular part of the compiler's code, we
-recommend that you link to the relevant parts of the [rustc
-rustdocs][rustdocs].
+recommend that you link to the relevant parts of the [rustc rustdocs][rustdocs].
 
-The guide has a much lower bar for what it takes for a PR to be merged. Check out
-the forge documentation for [our policy][forge_policy].
+The guide has a much lower bar for what it takes for a PR to be merged.
+Check out the forge documentation for [our policy][forge_policy].
 
 [forge_policy]: https://forge.rust-lang.org/rustc-dev-guide/index.html#review-policy
 
@@ -61,9 +60,9 @@ The build files are found in the `book/html` directory.
 
 ### Link Validations
 
-We use `mdbook-linkcheck2` to validate URLs included in our documentation. Link
-checking is **not** run by default locally, though it is in CI. To enable it
-locally, set the environment variable `ENABLE_LINKCHECK=1` like in the
+We use `mdbook-linkcheck2` to validate URLs included in our documentation.
+Link checking is **not** run by default locally, though it is in CI.
+To enable it locally, set the environment variable `ENABLE_LINKCHECK=1` like in the
 following example.
 
 ```
@@ -72,6 +71,7 @@ ENABLE_LINKCHECK=1 mdbook serve
 
 ## Synchronizing josh subtree with rustc
 
-This repository is linked to `rust-lang/rust` as a [josh](https://josh-project.github.io/josh/intro.html) subtree. You can use the [rustc-josh-sync](https://github.com/rust-lang/josh-sync) tool to perform synchronization.
+This repository is linked to `rust-lang/rust` as a [josh](https://josh-project.github.io/josh/intro.html) subtree.
+You can use the [rustc-josh-sync](https://github.com/rust-lang/josh-sync) tool to perform synchronization.
 
 You can find a guide on how to perform the synchronization [here](./src/external-repos.md#synchronizing-a-josh-subtree).