diff --git a/src/doc/book/ownership.md b/src/doc/book/ownership.md
index 8f15544b20b2..70d71c14ddf1 100644
--- a/src/doc/book/ownership.md
+++ b/src/doc/book/ownership.md
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ this point of time). These two parts of the vector (the one on the stack and
 one on the heap) must agree with each other at all times with regards to
 things like the length, capacity etc.
 
-When we move `v` to `v2`, rust actually does a bitwise copy of the vector
+When we move `v` to `v2`, Rust actually does a bitwise copy of the vector
 object `v` into the stack allocation represented by `v2`. This shallow copy
 does not create a copy of the heap allocation containing the actual data.
 Which means that there would be two pointers to the contents of the vector
diff --git a/src/doc/nomicon/other-reprs.md b/src/doc/nomicon/other-reprs.md
index 2639c1d4d6f7..b124f3ffc465 100644
--- a/src/doc/nomicon/other-reprs.md
+++ b/src/doc/nomicon/other-reprs.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ These reprs have no effect on a struct.
 
 # repr(packed)
 
-`repr(packed)` forces rust to strip any padding, and only align the type to a
+`repr(packed)` forces Rust to strip any padding, and only align the type to a
 byte. This may improve the memory footprint, but will likely have other negative
 side-effects.
 
diff --git a/src/doc/reference.md b/src/doc/reference.md
index 3dcc7b73480b..228af3948383 100644
--- a/src/doc/reference.md
+++ b/src/doc/reference.md
@@ -1764,7 +1764,7 @@ pub mod submodule {
 # fn main() {}
 ```
 
-For a rust program to pass the privacy checking pass, all paths must be valid
+For a Rust program to pass the privacy checking pass, all paths must be valid
 accesses given the two rules above. This includes all use statements,
 expressions, types, etc.