diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 39fee3d4b..efd3bb09a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ The prerequisites for locally building KickC are the following
 The steps to building KickC are
 
 1.  Download, Fork or Clone the source code from https://gitlab.com/camelot/kickc 
-2.  Build and package the KickC compiler by entering the source directory and executing `mvn package` 
-    (if you want to skip the time-consuming tests you can add the option `-DskipTests`)
+2.  Build and package the KickC compiler by entering the source directory and executing `mvn package`. 
+    If you want to skip the time-consuming tests you can add the option `-DskipTests`.
 3. The zipped release is placed in `target/kickc-release.zip`. You can now unzip it to a folder of your choice to start using the compiler.