diff --git a/contrib/man/md/docker-build.1.md b/contrib/man/md/docker-build.1.md
index da4f5c017e..1f8cb9cc10 100644
--- a/contrib/man/md/docker-build.1.md
+++ b/contrib/man/md/docker-build.1.md
@@ -70,29 +70,31 @@ specified within the `ADD` instruction into the specified target.
 ## Building an image and naming that image
 
 A good practice is to give a name to the image you are building. There are
-not hard rules here but it is best to give the names consideration. 
+no hard rules here but it is best to give the names consideration. 
 
 The **-t**/**--tag** flag is used to rename an image. Here are some examples:
 
-Though t is not good practice, image names can be aribtrary:
+Though it is not a good practice, image names can be arbtrary:
 
     docker build -t myimage .
 
-A better approach is provide a fully qualified and meaningful repository 
-name, name, and tag (where tag in this context means the qualifier after 
-the ":"). In this example we build a Jboss image for the Fedora repository 
-and give it a version 1.0:
+A better approach is to provide a fully qualified and meaningful repository,
+name, and tag (where the tag in this context means the qualifier after 
+the ":"). In this example we build a JBoss image for the Fedora repository 
+and give it the version 1.0:
 
     docker build -t fedora/jboss:1.0
 
 The next example is for the "whenry" user repository and uses Fedora and
-JBoss and gives it a version 2.1 :
+JBoss and gives it the version 2.1 :
 
     docker build -t whenry/fedora-jboss:V2.1
 
-Or:
+If you do not provide a version tag then Docker will assign `latest`:
 
-    docker build -t whenry/fedora-jboss:latest
+    docker build -t whenry/fedora-jboss
+
+When you list the images, the image above will have the tag `latest`.
 
 So renaming an image is arbitrary but consideration should be given to 
 a useful convention that makes sense for consumers and should also take
diff --git a/contrib/man/md/docker-run.1.md b/contrib/man/md/docker-run.1.md
index 72b01419bf..a1e380ff58 100644
--- a/contrib/man/md/docker-run.1.md
+++ b/contrib/man/md/docker-run.1.md
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ the other shell to view a list of the running containers. You can reattach to a
 detached container with **docker attach**. If you choose to run a container in
 the detached mode, then you cannot use the **-rm** option.
 
-   When attached in tty mode, you can detach from a running container by pressing
-the keys ctrl+p ctrl+q.
+   When attached in the tty mode, you can detach from a running container without
+stopping the process by pressing the keys CTRL-P CTRL-Q.
 
 
 **--dns**=*IP-address*
diff --git a/contrib/man/md/docker-tag.1.md b/contrib/man/md/docker-tag.1.md
index 687b6ddb47..eca821ebff 100644
--- a/contrib/man/md/docker-tag.1.md
+++ b/contrib/man/md/docker-tag.1.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ docker-tag - Tag an image in the repository
 IMAGE [REGISTRYHOST/][USERNAME/]NAME[:TAG]
 
 # DESCRIPTION
-This will rename an image in the repository. "Tag" is this context means the 
+This will rename an image in the repository. This refers to the
 entire image name including the optional TAG after the ':'. 
 
 # "OPTIONS"
@@ -27,15 +27,16 @@ separated by a ':'
    The image name.
 
 **TAG**
-   The tag you are assigning to the image. This is often a version or other
-'tag' to distinguish from other similarly named images. 
+   The tag you are assigning to the image.  Though this is arbitrary it is
+recommended to be used for a version to disinguish images with the same name.
+Note that here TAG is a part of the overall name or "tag".
 
 # EXAMPLES
 
 ## Tagging an image
 
-Here is an example of renaming an image with the repository 'fedora', name 
-'httpd', and tag version1.0 :
+Here is an example of renaming an image (e.g. 0e5574283393) as "httpd" and 
+tagging it into the "fedora" repository with "version1.0":
 
     docker tag 0e5574283393 fedora/httpd:version1.0