diff --git a/doc/general/about.rst b/doc/general/about.rst
index 68e1425..c705461 100644
--- a/doc/general/about.rst
+++ b/doc/general/about.rst
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ About Autocmake
 Building libraries and executables from sources can be a complex task. Several
 solutions exist to this problem: GNU Makefiles is the traditional approach.
 Today, CMake is one of the trendier alternatives. Autocmake is a script which
-composes well tested CMake building blocks into a CMake project.  Autocmake
-assembles CMake modules, generates ``CMakeLists.txt`` as well as ``setup.py``,
-which serves as a front-end to ``CMakeLists.txt``. All this is done based on a
-lightweight ``autocmake.cfg`` file::
+composes well tested CMake building blocks into a CMake project and generates
+``CMakeLists.txt`` as well as ``setup.py``, which serves as a front-end to
+``CMakeLists.txt``. All this is done based on a lightweight ``autocmake.cfg``
+file::
 
   python update.py --self
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@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ scientific projects which typically have very similar requirements:
 - Math libraries: BLAS, LAPACK
 
 Our other motivation for Autocmake was to make it easier for developers who do
-not know CMake to generate a CMake infrastructure within minutes by providing
-a higher-level entry point to CMake.
+not know CMake to use CMake by providing a higher-level entry point to CMake.
 
 Autocmake is a chance to provide a well documented and tested set of CMake
 plug-ins. With this we wish to give also users of codes the opportunity to
@@ -70,6 +69,5 @@ Convention over configuration
 -----------------------------
 
 Our guideline is to follow good established conventions in order to allow users
-and developers to recognize the configuration when experimenting with
-an Autocmake-powered project.
-another.
+and developers to recognize the configuration when experimenting with an
+Autocmake-powered project.