diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 9d27b694e4d..45a01bb2bd9 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@ cuGraph, and all of RAPIDS in general, is an open-source project where we encour
 * [Implement a New Feature](#implement)
 * [Wok on an Existing Issue](#bugfix)
 
-
-[Contribute Code](#code)
-
+If you are ready to contribute, jump right to the [Contribute Code](#code) section.
 
 
 <a name="issue"></a>
@@ -56,13 +54,11 @@ If you need more context on a particular issue, please ask.
 
 # So You Want to Contribute Code
 
-### TL;DR General Development Process
-
+**TL;DR General Development Process**
 1. Read the documentation on [building from source](SOURCEBUILD.md) to learn how to setup, and validate, the development environment
-2. Find an issue, or submit an issue, to work on. 
-3. Comment on the issue saying you are going to work on it
-4. Fork the cuGraph [repo](#fork) and Code (make sure to add unit tests)!
-5. When done, and code passes local CI, create your pull request (PR)
+2. Find or submit an issue to work on. (include a comment that you are workign issue)
+3. Fork the cuGraph [repo](#fork) and Code (make sure to add unit tests)!
+4. When done, and code passes local CI, create your pull request (PR)
    1. Update the CHANGELOG.md with PR number
    2. Ensure that the PR has the proper [tags](PRTAGS.md)
 6. Verify that cuGraph CI passes all [status checks](https://help.github.com/articles/about-status-checks/). Fix if needed
@@ -74,13 +70,31 @@ and ask for clarifications!
 
 
 
-### Fork a private copy of cuGraph that can we modified
+## Fork a private copy of cuGraph 
 <a name="fork"></a>
 
 The RAPIDS cuGraph repo cannot directly be modified.  Contributions must come in the form of a *Pull Request* from a folked version of cugraph.    GitHub as a nice write up ion the process:  https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/fork-a-repo
 
+1. Fork the cugraph repo to your GitHub account
+2. clone your version 
+```git clone https://github.com/<YOUR GITHUB NAME>/cugraph.git```
+
+
 Read the section on [building cuGraph from source](SOURCEBUILD.md) to validate that the environment is correct.  
 
+**Pro Tip** add an upstream remote repository so that you can keep your forked repo in sync
+```git remote add upstream https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph.git```
+
+3. Checkout the latest branch
+cuGraph only allows contribution to the current branch and not master or a future branch.  PLease check the [cuGraph](https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph) page for the name of the current branch.  
+```git checkout branch-x.x```
+
+4. Code .....
+5. Once your code works and passes tests
+   1. commit your code
+    ```git push```
+6. From the GitHub web page, open a Pull Request
+   1. follow the Pull Request [tagging policy](PRTAGS.md) 
 
 ### Development Environment
 
@@ -127,6 +141,13 @@ others know you are working on it. If you have any questions related to the
 implementation of the issue, ask them in the issue instead of the PR.
 
 
+### Style Guild
+All Python code most pass flake8 style checking
+All C++ code must pass clank style checking
+
+### Tests
+All code must have assocsiate test cases.  Code without test will not be accepted
+