diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92e79ce..5b8391d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ A utility in the pursuit of building megafiles. It will retrun a deduped array o
 ```js
 const { dedupeLocalEventsFilesInDirectory } = require('encites')
 
-const directory = './data/`
+const directory = './data/'
 
 // get all data, deduped, from your data directory
 const dedupedData = await dedupeLocalEventsFilesInDirectory(`${directory}`)
@@ -266,4 +266,4 @@ An event object has a relatively specific structure. This structure is based on
   "date": "2021-03-11T16:27:38Z",
   "action": "opened"
 }
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```