diff --git a/examples/amoeba/README b/examples/amoeba/README
index 7207593c47..969ecf4e22 100644
--- a/examples/amoeba/README
+++ b/examples/amoeba/README
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-Data files in this directory were created by the tools/tinker/tinker2lmp.py script
+Data files in this directory were created using the
+tools/tinker/tinker2lmp.py script as follows:
 
 ** water_dimer:
 
diff --git a/tools/tinker/README b/tools/tinker/README
index 04ee066642..018db181c8 100644
--- a/tools/tinker/README
+++ b/tools/tinker/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Examples of how this tool created the data files in the
+Examples for how this tool created the data files in the
 examples/amoeba directory:
 
 ** water_dimer: