diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3f0ab5b..5d4a60a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Here's a little snippet of an example wikipedia page in the doc:
 </page>
 ```
 
-In our Go code, we define a struct to match the <page> element, its nested <redirect> element and grab a couple of fields we're interested in (<text> and <title>).
+In our Go code, we define a struct to match the <page> element, its nested <redirect> element and grab a couple of fields we're interested in (`<text>` and `<title>`).
 ```go
 type Redirect struct { 
     Title string `xml:"title,attr"` 
@@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ for {
 ```
 
 
-I hope this saves you some time if you need to parse a huge XML file yourself.
\ No newline at end of file
+I hope this saves you some time if you need to parse a huge XML file yourself.