diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 431be7c3f0..7a7dfa619b 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Tempest Design Principles that we strive to live by.
   parts as load generation for an OpenStack cloud.
 - Tempest should attempt to clean up after itself, whenever possible
   we should tear down resources when done.
-- Tempest should be self testing.
+- Tempest should be self-testing.
 
 Quickstart
 ----------
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Configuration
 
 Detailed configuration of Tempest is beyond the scope of this
 document see :ref:`tempest-configuration` for more details on configuring
-Tempest. The etc/tempest.conf.sample attempts to be a self documenting version
+Tempest. The etc/tempest.conf.sample attempts to be a self-documenting version
 of the configuration.
 
 You can generate a new sample tempest.conf file, run the following
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Tempest to run under both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4. Tempest strives to fully
 support running with Python 3.4. A gating unit test job was added to also run
 Tempest's unit tests under Python 3.4. This means that the Tempest code at
 least imports under Python 3.4 and things that have unit test coverage will
-work on Python 3.4. However, because large parts of Tempest are self verifying
+work on Python 3.4. However, because large parts of Tempest are self-verifying
 there might be uncaught issues running on Python 3.4. So until there is a gating
 job which does a full Tempest run using Python 3.4 there isn't any guarantee
 that running Tempest under Python 3.4 is bug free.