diff --git a/content/packages-and-modules/introduction-to-packages-and-modules/about-packages-and-modules.mdx b/content/packages-and-modules/introduction-to-packages-and-modules/about-packages-and-modules.mdx
index 3bb243993eb..258b00654b8 100644
--- a/content/packages-and-modules/introduction-to-packages-and-modules/about-packages-and-modules.mdx
+++ b/content/packages-and-modules/introduction-to-packages-and-modules/about-packages-and-modules.mdx
@@ -56,9 +56,11 @@ To be loaded by the Node.js `require()` function, a module must be one of the fo
 
 In the context of a Node program, the `module` is also the thing that was loaded _from_ a file. For example, in the following program:
 
-    var req = require('request')
+```
+var req = require('request')
+```
 
-we might say that "The variable `req` refers to the `request` module".
+The `req` variable refers to the `request` module returned by the `require()` function.
 
 [about-scopes]: about-scopes
 [private-pkgs]: about-private-packages