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 ## Overview
 
-Atom Shell is a cross-platform desktop application shell. It provides a way to
-build native like applications with [node.js](http://nodejs.org) and web page
-engine of [Chromium](http://www.chromium.org).
-
-It is powering the [Atom editor](https://github.com/atom/atom).
+The Atom Shell framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications
+using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on [node.js](http://nodejs.org) and
+[Chromium](http://www.chromium.org) and is used in the [Atom
+editor](https://github.com/atom/atom).
 
 ## Downloads
 
-Prebuilt binaries of atom-shell for Linux, Window and Mac could be found in the
-[releases](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/releases) page, new releases would
-also be published there.
+Prebuilt binaries of atom-shell for Linux, Window and Mac can be found on the
+[releases](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/releases) page.
 
-## Documents
+## Documentation
 
-Visist the [docs](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs) in the
-repository for usage guides and API references, it also includes how to build
-and contribute to atom-shell.
+Guides and the API reference is located in the
+[docs](https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/tree/master/docs) directory. It also
+contains documents describing how to build and contributeto atom-shell.