diff --git a/balancer.go b/balancer.go
index cd2e8c1c4..f4768cf88 100644
--- a/balancer.go
+++ b/balancer.go
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ func (b CRC32Balancer) Balance(msg Message, partitions ...int) (partition int) {
 // determine which partition to route messages to.  This ensures that messages
 // with the same key are routed to the same partition.  This balancer is
 // compatible with the partitioner used by the Java library and by librdkafka's
-// "murmur2" and "murmur2_random" partitioners. /
+// "murmur2" and "murmur2_random" partitioners.
 //
 // With the Consistent field false (default), this partitioner is equivalent to
 // the "murmur2_random" setting in librdkafka.  When Consistent is true, this
diff --git a/compress/compress.go b/compress/compress.go
index 6e92968f2..054bf03d0 100644
--- a/compress/compress.go
+++ b/compress/compress.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/segmentio/kafka-go/compress/zstd"
 )
 
-// Compression represents the the compression applied to a record set.
+// Compression represents the compression applied to a record set.
 type Compression int8
 
 const (
diff --git a/fetch.go b/fetch.go
index e682aeadb..eafd0de88 100644
--- a/fetch.go
+++ b/fetch.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ type FetchResponse struct {
 	Topic     string
 	Partition int
 
-	// Informations about the topic partition layout returned from the broker.
+	// Information about the topic partition layout returned from the broker.
 	//
 	// LastStableOffset requires the kafka broker to support the Fetch API in
 	// version 4 or above (otherwise the value is zero).
diff --git a/produce.go b/produce.go
index 1a196fe6b..26281a0b8 100644
--- a/produce.go
+++ b/produce.go
@@ -117,21 +117,21 @@ type ProduceResponse struct {
 
 	// Time at which the broker wrote the records to the topic partition.
 	//
-	// This field will be zero if the kafka broker did no support the Produce
-	// API in version 2 or above.
+	// This field will be zero if the kafka broker did not support Produce API
+	// version 2 or above.
 	LogAppendTime time.Time
 
 	// First offset in the topic partition that the records were written to.
 	//
-	// This field will be zero if the kafka broker did no support the Produce
-	// API in version 5 or above (or if the first offset is zero).
+	// This field will be zero if the kafka broker did not support Produce API
+	// version 5 or above (or if the first offset is zero).
 	LogStartOffset int64
 
 	// If errors occurred writing specific records, they will be reported in
 	// this map.
 	//
-	// This field will always be empty if the kafka broker did no support the
-	// Produce API in version 8 or above.
+	// This field will always be empty if the kafka broker did not support
+	// Produce API version 8 or above.
 	RecordErrors map[int]error
 }
 
diff --git a/reader.go b/reader.go
index fed5d1d4e..13a336e51 100644
--- a/reader.go
+++ b/reader.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ const (
 )
 
 const (
-	// defaultCommitRetries holds the number commit attempts to make
+	// defaultCommitRetries holds the number of commit attempts to make
 	// before giving up.
 	defaultCommitRetries = 3
 )
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ func (r *Reader) Close() error {
 // offset when called. Note that this could result in an offset being committed
 // before the message is fully processed.
 //
-// If more fine grained control of when offsets are  committed is required, it
+// If more fine-grained control of when offsets are committed is required, it
 // is recommended to use FetchMessage with CommitMessages instead.
 func (r *Reader) ReadMessage(ctx context.Context) (Message, error) {
 	m, err := r.FetchMessage(ctx)
@@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ func (r *Reader) start(offsetsByPartition map[topicPartition]int64) {
 }
 
 // A reader reads messages from kafka and produces them on its channels, it's
-// used as an way to asynchronously fetch messages while the main program reads
+// used as a way to asynchronously fetch messages while the main program reads
 // them using the high level reader API.
 type reader struct {
 	dialer           *Dialer
diff --git a/reader_test.go b/reader_test.go
index d73bdfbe3..f413d7429 100644
--- a/reader_test.go
+++ b/reader_test.go
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ func createTopic(t *testing.T, topic string, partitions int) {
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		if !errors.Is(err, TopicAlreadyExists) {
-			err = fmt.Errorf("creaetTopic, conn.createtTopics: %w", err)
+			err = fmt.Errorf("createTopic, conn.createTopics: %w", err)
 			t.Error(err)
 			t.FailNow()
 		}
diff --git a/transport.go b/transport.go
index 6ba2d638c..b66422966 100644
--- a/transport.go
+++ b/transport.go
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ type Transport struct {
 
 	// Time limit set for establishing connections to the kafka cluster. This
 	// limit includes all round trips done to establish the connections (TLS
-	// hadbhaske, SASL negotiation, etc...).
+	// handshake, SASL negotiation, etc...).
 	//
 	// Defaults to 5s.
 	DialTimeout time.Duration
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ func (t *Transport) CloseIdleConnections() {
 // package.
 //
 // The type of the response message will match the type of the request. For
-// exmple, if RoundTrip was called with a *fetch.Request as argument, the value
+// example, if RoundTrip was called with a *fetch.Request as argument, the value
 // returned will be of type *fetch.Response. It is safe for the program to do a
 // type assertion after checking that no error was returned.
 //
@@ -413,14 +413,16 @@ func (p *connPool) roundTrip(ctx context.Context, req Request) (Response, error)
 	case *meta.Response:
 		m := req.(*meta.Request)
 		// If we get here with allow auto topic creation then
-		// we didn't have that topic in our cache so we should update
+		// we didn't have that topic in our cache, so we should update
 		// the cache.
 		if m.AllowAutoTopicCreation {
 			topicsToRefresh := make([]string, 0, len(resp.Topics))
 			for _, topic := range resp.Topics {
-				// fixes issue 806: don't refresh topics that failed to create,
-				// it may means kafka doesn't enable auto topic creation.
-				// This causes the library to hang indefinitely, same as createtopics process.
+				// Don't refresh topics that failed to create, since that may
+				// mean that enable automatic topic creation is not enabled.
+				// That causes the library to hang indefinitely, same as
+				// don't refresh topics that failed to create,
+				// createtopics process. Fixes issue 806.
 				if topic.ErrorCode != 0 {
 					continue
 				}
diff --git a/writer.go b/writer.go
index f3c6bd4d1..ce69ab30c 100644
--- a/writer.go
+++ b/writer.go
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ func (w *Writer) enter() bool {
 // completed.
 func (w *Writer) leave() { w.group.Done() }
 
-// spawn starts an new asynchronous operation on the writer. This method is used
+// spawn starts a new asynchronous operation on the writer. This method is used
 // instead of starting goroutines inline to help manage the state of the
 // writer's wait group. The wait group is used to block Close calls until all
 // inflight operations have completed, therefore automatically including those
diff --git a/writer_test.go b/writer_test.go
index d34358865..70a44ca8d 100644
--- a/writer_test.go
+++ b/writer_test.go
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ func TestWriter(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 
 		{
-			scenario: "writing messsages with a small batch byte size",
+			scenario: "writing messages with a small batch byte size",
 			function: testWriterSmallBatchBytes,
 		},
 		{
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ func TestWriter(t *testing.T) {
 			function: testWriterInvalidPartition,
 		},
 		{
-			scenario: "writing a message to a non-existant topic creates the topic",
+			scenario: "writing a message to a non-existent topic creates the topic",
 			function: testWriterAutoCreateTopic,
 		},
 		{