diff --git a/doc/api/http.md b/doc/api/http.md
index a19e09150eee03..53cd9d3bb8aa03 100644
--- a/doc/api/http.md
+++ b/doc/api/http.md
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ added: v1.6.0
 * `name` {string}
 * Returns: {any}
 
-Reads out a header on the request. Note that the name is case insensitive.
+Reads out a header on the request. The name is case-insensitive.
 The type of the return value depends on the arguments provided to
 [`request.setHeader()`][].
 
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ client should continue to send the request body, or generating an appropriate
 HTTP response (e.g. 400 Bad Request) if the client should not continue to send
 the request body.
 
-Note that when this event is emitted and handled, the [`'request'`][] event will
+When this event is emitted and handled, the [`'request'`][] event will
 not be emitted.
 
 ### Event: 'checkExpectation'
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ Emitted each time a request with an HTTP `Expect` header is received, where the
 value is not `100-continue`. If this event is not listened for, the server will
 automatically respond with a `417 Expectation Failed` as appropriate.
 
-Note that when this event is emitted and handled, the [`'request'`][] event will
+When this event is emitted and handled, the [`'request'`][] event will
 not be emitted.
 
 ### Event: 'clientError'
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ added: v0.1.0
 * `request` {http.IncomingMessage}
 * `response` {http.ServerResponse}
 
-Emitted each time there is a request. Note that there may be multiple requests
+Emitted each time there is a request. There may be multiple requests
 per connection (in the case of HTTP Keep-Alive connections).
 
 ### Event: 'upgrade'
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ Trailers will **only** be emitted if chunked encoding is used for the
 response; if it is not (e.g. if the request was HTTP/1.0), they will
 be silently discarded.
 
-Note that HTTP requires the `Trailer` header to be sent in order to
+HTTP requires the `Trailer` header to be sent in order to
 emit trailers, with a list of the header fields in its value. E.g.,
 
 ```js
@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ added: v0.4.0
 * Returns: {any}
 
 Reads out a header that's already been queued but not sent to the client.
-Note that the name is case insensitive. The type of the return value depends
+The name is case-insensitive. The type of the return value depends
 on the arguments provided to [`response.setHeader()`][].
 
 ```js
@@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ added: v7.7.0
 * Returns: {boolean}
 
 Returns `true` if the header identified by `name` is currently set in the
-outgoing headers. Note that the header name matching is case-insensitive.
+outgoing headers. The header name matching is case-insensitive.
 
 ```js
 const hasContentType = response.hasHeader('content-type');
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ it will switch to implicit header mode and flush the implicit headers.
 This sends a chunk of the response body. This method may
 be called multiple times to provide successive parts of the body.
 
-Note that in the `http` module, the response body is omitted when the
+In the `http` module, the response body is omitted when the
 request is a HEAD request. Similarly, the `204` and `304` responses
 _must not_ include a message body.
 
@@ -1528,11 +1528,11 @@ const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
 });
 ```
 
-Note that Content-Length is given in bytes not characters. The above example
+`Content-Length` is given in bytes not characters. The above example
 works because the string `'hello world'` contains only single byte characters.
 If the body contains higher coded characters then `Buffer.byteLength()`
 should be used to determine the number of bytes in a given encoding.
-And Node.js does not check whether Content-Length and the length of the body
+And Node.js does not check whether `Content-Length` and the length of the body
 which has been transmitted are equal or not.
 
 Attempting to set a header field name or value that contains invalid characters
@@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ added: v0.11.6
 
 The raw request/response headers list exactly as they were received.
 
-Note that the keys and values are in the same list. It is *not* a
+The keys and values are in the same list. It is *not* a
 list of tuples. So, the even-numbered offsets are key values, and the
 odd-numbered offsets are the associated values.
 
@@ -1908,7 +1908,7 @@ changes:
 Since most requests are GET requests without bodies, Node.js provides this
 convenience method. The only difference between this method and
 [`http.request()`][] is that it sets the method to GET and calls `req.end()`
-automatically. Note that the callback must take care to consume the response
+automatically. The callback must take care to consume the response
 data for reasons stated in [`http.ClientRequest`][] section.
 
 The `callback` is invoked with a single argument that is an instance of
@@ -2083,7 +2083,7 @@ req.write(postData);
 req.end();
 ```
 
-Note that in the example `req.end()` was called. With `http.request()` one
+In the example `req.end()` was called. With `http.request()` one
 must always call `req.end()` to signify the end of the request -
 even if there is no data being written to the request body.
 
@@ -2157,7 +2157,7 @@ will be emitted in the following order:
 * `'end'` on the `res` object
 * `'close'` on the `res` object
 
-Note that setting the `timeout` option or using the `setTimeout()` function will
+Setting the `timeout` option or using the `setTimeout()` function will
 not abort the request or do anything besides add a `'timeout'` event.
 
 [`--http-server-default-timeout`]: cli.html#cli_http_server_default_timeout_milliseconds