diff --git a/docs/language/README.rst b/docs/language/README.rst
index 09d7e20e705..48beeed5791 100644
--- a/docs/language/README.rst
+++ b/docs/language/README.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-QL language documentation
-#########################
+CodeQL documentation
+####################
 
 Overview
 ********
 
-The QL language documentation is written in reStructuredText and converted to
+The CodeQL documentation in this repository is written in reStructuredText and converted to
 HTML for manual publication on `help.semmle.com <https://help.semmle.com>`__ using Sphinx. 
 
 For more information on writing in reStructuredText, 
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ For more information on Sphinx, see https://www.sphinx-doc.org.
 Project structure
 *****************
 
-The QL language documentation currently consists of the following Sphinx projects:
+The documentation currently consists of the following Sphinx projects:
 
-- ``learn-ql``–help topics to help you learn the QL language and write queries
-- ``ql-handbook``–a user-friendly guide to the QL language
+- ``learn-ql``–help topics to help you learn CodeQL and write queries
+- ``ql-handbook``–a user-friendly guide to the QL language, which underlies CodeQL analysis
 - ``ql-spec``–formal descriptions of the QL language and QLDoc comments
-- ``support``–the languages and frameworks currently supported in QL analysis
-- ``ql-training``–source files for the QL training and variant analysis examples slide decks
+- ``support``–the languages and frameworks currently supported in CodeQL analysis
+- ``ql-training``–source files for the CodeQL training and variant analysis examples slide decks
 
 Each project contains:
 
@@ -34,20 +34,20 @@ Shared configuration values are specified in ``global-conf.py``, which is found
 in the ``global-sphinx-files`` directory.
 This directory also contains any other files, such as templates and stylesheets, 
 that are used by multiple projects.
-Images used in the QL documentation are located in the ``images`` directory.
+Images used in the documentation are located in the ``images`` directory.
 
 The ``ql-training`` project contains the source files, themes, and static files 
-used to generate the QL training and variant analysis presentations. 
+used to generate the CodeQL training and variant analysis presentations. 
 It uses a different configuration from the other projects, and is built using an 
 extension specifically designed for HTML slide shows. 
 For more information, see  
-**Building and previewing the QL training presentations** below.
+**Building and previewing the CodeQL training presentations** below.
 
 
-Building and previewing the QL language documentation
-*****************************************************
+Building and previewing the CodeQL documentation
+************************************************
 
-To build and preview the QL documentation and QL training presentations locally, you need to 
+To build and preview the documentation and training presentations locally, you need to 
 install Sphinx 1.7.9. More recent versions of Sphinx do not work with hieroglyph, 
 the Sphinx extension that we use to generate HTML slides, as explained below. 
 For installation options, see https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx.
@@ -85,15 +85,15 @@ Visual Studio Code has an extension that can be used to preview Sphinx-generated
 output alongside ``.rst`` source code in your IDE. For more information, see the 
 `Visual Studio Marketplace <https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lextudio.restructuredtext>`__.
 
-Building and previewing the QL training presentations
-*****************************************************
+Building and previewing the CodeQL training presentations
+*********************************************************
 
-To build the QL training presentations, you need to install a Sphinx extension
+To build the training presentations, you need to install a Sphinx extension
 called `hieroglyph <https://github.com/nyergler/hieroglyph>`__. 
 You also need to install `graphviz <https://graphviz.gitlab.io/download/>`__, which 
 is used to generate graphs on some slides.
 
-After installing hieroglyph and graphviz, you can build the QL training presentations by running 
+After installing hieroglyph and graphviz, you can build the training presentations by running 
 ``sphinx-build``, specifying the ``slides`` builder. For example
 
 .. code::
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ the ``ql-training`` source directory.
 For more information about creating slides for QL training and variant analysis 
 examples, see the `template slide deck <https://github.com/Semmle/ql/blob/master/docs/language/ql-training/template.rst>`__.
 
-Viewing the current version of the QL language documentation
-************************************************************
+Viewing the current version of the CodeQL documentation
+*******************************************************
 
-The QL language documentation for the most recent Semmle release is 
+The documentation for the most recent Semmle release is 
 published to `help.semmle.com <https://help.semmle.com>`__. 
-There, you can also find the documentation for QL for Eclipse, 
-QL for Visual Studio, QL command-line tools, and LGTM Enterprise. 
+There, you can also find the documentation for the CodeQL CLI,
+the CodeQL extension for Visual Studio Code, and LGTM Enterprise.