diff --git a/adapter-kafka/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/kafka/exception/KafkaAdapterUnsupportedOpException.java b/adapter-kafka/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/kafka/exception/KafkaAdapterUnsupportedOpException.java
index 4386ddcd6..cb39d0cd4 100644
--- a/adapter-kafka/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/kafka/exception/KafkaAdapterUnsupportedOpException.java
+++ b/adapter-kafka/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/kafka/exception/KafkaAdapterUnsupportedOpException.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ package io.nosqlbench.adapter.kafka.exception;
 
 public class KafkaAdapterUnsupportedOpException extends RuntimeException {
 
-    public KafkaAdapterUnsupportedOpException(String pulsarOpType) {
-        super("Unsupported Pulsar adapter operation type: \"" + pulsarOpType + "\"");
+    public KafkaAdapterUnsupportedOpException(String kafkaOpType) {
+        super("Unsupported Kafka adapter operation type: \"" + kafkaOpType + "\"");
     }
 }
diff --git a/adapter-kafka/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/kafka/util/KafkaClientConf.java b/adapter-kafka/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/kafka/util/KafkaClientConf.java
index 0d1b82f2d..bdb9d229a 100644
--- a/adapter-kafka/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/kafka/util/KafkaClientConf.java
+++ b/adapter-kafka/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/kafka/util/KafkaClientConf.java
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public class KafkaClientConf {
     public KafkaClientConf(String clientConfFileName) {
 
         //////////////////
-        // Read related Pulsar client configuration settings from a file
+        // Read related Kafka client configuration settings from a file
         readRawConfFromFile(clientConfFileName);
 
 
diff --git a/adapter-kafka/src/main/resources/README.md b/adapter-kafka/src/main/resources/README.md
index e01f35fd0..0cdb49b53 100644
--- a/adapter-kafka/src/main/resources/README.md
+++ b/adapter-kafka/src/main/resources/README.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Overview
 
-This NB Kafka driver allows publishing messages to or consuming messages from
+This NB Kafka adapter allows publishing messages to or consuming messages from
 * a Kafka cluster, or
 * a Pulsar cluster with [S4K](https://github.com/datastax/starlight-for-kafka) or [KoP](https://github.com/streamnative/kop) Kafka Protocol handler for Pulsar.
 
-At high level, this driver supports the following Kafka functionalities
+At high level, this adapter supports the following Kafka functionalities
 * Publishing messages to one Kafka topic with sync. or async. message-send acknowledgements (from brokers)
 * Subscribing messages from one or multiple Kafka topics with sync. or async. message-recv acknowlegements (to brokers) (aka, message commits)
     * auto message commit
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ $ <nb_cmd> run driver=kafka -vv cycles=100 threads=2 num_clnt=2 yaml=kafka_produ
 $ <nb_cmd> run driver=kafka -vv cycles=100 threads=4 num_clnt=2 num_cons_grp=2 yaml=kafka_producer.yaml config=kafka_config.properties bootstrap_server=PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092
 ```
 
-## NB Kafka driver specific CLI parameters
+## NB Kafka adapter specific CLI parameters
 
 * `num_clnt`: the number of Kafka clients to publish messages to or to receive messages from
     * For producer workload, this is the number of the producer threads to publish messages to the same topic