@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@
 Event based APIs are a powerful way of exposing functionality of your widgets.  It also fits in 
 quite nicely with how the DOM works.
 
-
 Like default events in normal functions (e.g. submitting a form), synthetic default events run after
 all event handlers have been triggered and no event handler has called
-preventDefault or returned false.
+`event.preventDefault()` or returned `false`.
 
 To listen to a default event, just prefix the event with `default` namespace:
 
@@ -21,11 +20,11 @@ To listen to a default event, just prefix the event with `default` namespace:
 
 Default events are useful in cases where you want to provide an event based
 API for users of your widgets.  Users can simply listen to your synthetic events and 
-prevent your default functionality by calling preventDefault.  
+prevent your default functionality by calling `event.preventDefault()`.
 
 In the example below, the tabs widget provides a show event.  Users of the 
-tabs widget simply listen for show, and if they wish for some reason, call preventDefault 
-to avoid showing the tab.
+tabs widget can simply listen for show, and, if they wish to prevent a tab
+from being shown for some reason, they can call preventDefault to avoid showing the tab.
 
 In this case, the application developer doesn't want to show the second 
 tab until the checkbox is checked. 