diff --git a/doc.go b/doc.go
index 0d327fe..f5ff082 100644
--- a/doc.go
+++ b/doc.go
@@ -6,9 +6,8 @@
 //
 // Overview
 //
-// The Conn type represents a WebSocket connection. A server application uses
-// the Upgrade function from an Upgrader object with a HTTP request handler
-// to get a pointer to a Conn:
+// The Conn type represents a WebSocket connection. A server application calls
+// the Upgrader.Upgrade method from an HTTP request handler to get a *Conn:
 //
 //  var upgrader = websocket.Upgrader{
 //      ReadBufferSize:  1024,
@@ -147,9 +146,9 @@
 //      CheckOrigin: func(r *http.Request) bool { return true },
 //  }
 //
-// The deprecated Upgrade function does not enforce an origin policy. It's the
-// application's responsibility to check the Origin header before calling
-// Upgrade.
+// The deprecated package-level Upgrade function does not perform origin
+// checking. The application is responsible for checking the Origin header
+// before calling the Upgrade function.
 //
 // Compression EXPERIMENTAL
 //
diff --git a/json.go b/json.go
index 4f0e368..dc2c1f6 100644
--- a/json.go
+++ b/json.go
@@ -9,12 +9,14 @@ import (
 	"io"
 )
 
-// WriteJSON is deprecated, use c.WriteJSON instead.
+// WriteJSON writes the JSON encoding of v as a message.
+//
+// Deprecated: Use c.WriteJSON instead.
 func WriteJSON(c *Conn, v interface{}) error {
 	return c.WriteJSON(v)
 }
 
-// WriteJSON writes the JSON encoding of v to the connection.
+// WriteJSON writes the JSON encoding of v as a message.
 //
 // See the documentation for encoding/json Marshal for details about the
 // conversion of Go values to JSON.
@@ -31,7 +33,10 @@ func (c *Conn) WriteJSON(v interface{}) error {
 	return err2
 }
 
-// ReadJSON is deprecated, use c.ReadJSON instead.
+// ReadJSON reads the next JSON-encoded message from the connection and stores
+// it in the value pointed to by v.
+//
+// Deprecated: Use c.ReadJSON instead.
 func ReadJSON(c *Conn, v interface{}) error {
 	return c.ReadJSON(v)
 }
diff --git a/server.go b/server.go
index 3495e0f..6ae97c5 100644
--- a/server.go
+++ b/server.go
@@ -230,10 +230,11 @@ func (u *Upgrader) Upgrade(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, responseHeade
 
 // Upgrade upgrades the HTTP server connection to the WebSocket protocol.
 //
-// This function is deprecated, use websocket.Upgrader instead.
+// Deprecated: Use websocket.Upgrader instead.
 //
-// The application is responsible for checking the request origin before
-// calling Upgrade. An example implementation of the same origin policy is:
+// Upgrade does not perform origin checking. The application is responsible for
+// checking the Origin header before calling Upgrade. An example implementation
+// of the same origin policy check is:
 //
 //	if req.Header.Get("Origin") != "http://"+req.Host {
 //		http.Error(w, "Origin not allowed", 403)
diff --git a/util.go b/util.go
index 9a4908d..262e647 100644
--- a/util.go
+++ b/util.go
@@ -111,14 +111,14 @@ func nextTokenOrQuoted(s string) (value string, rest string) {
 				case escape:
 					escape = false
 					p[j] = b
-					j += 1
+					j++
 				case b == '\\':
 					escape = true
 				case b == '"':
 					return string(p[:j]), s[i+1:]
 				default:
 					p[j] = b
-					j += 1
+					j++
 				}
 			}
 			return "", ""