diff --git a/lessons/03-navigating-with-link/README.md b/lessons/03-navigating-with-link/README.md
index c1aaa332..fd1518d8 100644
--- a/lessons/03-navigating-with-link/README.md
+++ b/lessons/03-navigating-with-link/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Navigating with Link
 
-Perhaps the most used component in your app is `Link`. Its almost
-identical to the `<a/>` tag you're used to except that its aware of
+Perhaps the most used component in your app is `Link`. It's almost
+identical to the `<a/>` tag you're used to except that it's aware of
 the `Router` it was rendered in.
 
 Let's create some navigation in our `App` component.
diff --git a/lessons/06-params/README.md b/lessons/06-params/README.md
index e5066a2e..d165bc7e 100644
--- a/lessons/06-params/README.md
+++ b/lessons/06-params/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ parsed out and made available to route components on
 
 ## Adding a Route with Parameters
 
-Lets teach our app how to render screens at `/repos/:userName/:repoName`.
+Let's teach our app how to render screens at `/repos/:userName/:repoName`.
 
 First we need a component to render at the route, make a new file at
 `modules/Repo.js` that looks something like this:
diff --git a/lessons/11-productionish-server/README.md b/lessons/11-productionish-server/README.md
index 0dc31466..30582eba 100644
--- a/lessons/11-productionish-server/README.md
+++ b/lessons/11-productionish-server/README.md
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ scripts entry in package.json to look like this:
 },
 ```
 
+In the root directly, go open up `webpack.config.js` and add the publicPath '/' as per below:
+```
+// webpack.config.js
+  output: {
+    path: 'public',
+    filename: 'bundle.js',
+    publicPath: '/'
+  },
+```
+
 When you run `npm start` it checks if the value of our `NODE_ENV` environment variable is
 `production`. If yes, it runs `npm run start:prod`, if not, it runs
 `npm run start:dev`.
@@ -38,7 +48,6 @@ first attempt:
 // server.js
 var express = require('express')
 var path = require('path')
-var compression = require('compression')
 
 var app = express()
 
diff --git a/lessons/13-server-rendering/README.md b/lessons/13-server-rendering/README.md
index 4a631854..a8aa94b7 100644
--- a/lessons/13-server-rendering/README.md
+++ b/lessons/13-server-rendering/README.md
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ import routes from './modules/routes'
 app.get('*', (req, res) => {
   // match the routes to the url
   match({ routes: routes, location: req.url }, (err, redirect, props) => {
-    // `RouterContext` is the what `Router` renders. `Router` keeps these
+    // `RouterContext` is what the `Router` renders. `Router` keeps these
     // `props` in its state as it listens to `browserHistory`. But on the
     // server our app is stateless, so we need to use `match` to
     // get these props before rendering.