diff --git a/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md b/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md
index fcae79e12..4a7815032 100644
--- a/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md
+++ b/docs/topics/3.0-announcement.md
@@ -109,16 +109,16 @@ The following example from the tutorial previously used `restore_object()` to ha
 
 This would now be split out into two separate methods.
 
-    def update(self, instance, validated_attrs)
-        instance.title = validated_attrs.get('title', instance.title)
-        instance.code = validated_attrs.get('code', instance.code)
-        instance.linenos = validated_attrs.get('linenos', instance.linenos)
-        instance.language = validated_attrs.get('language', instance.language)
-        instance.style = validated_attrs.get('style', instance.style)
+    def update(self, instance, validated_data)
+        instance.title = validated_data.get('title', instance.title)
+        instance.code = validated_data.get('code', instance.code)
+        instance.linenos = validated_data.get('linenos', instance.linenos)
+        instance.language = validated_data.get('language', instance.language)
+        instance.style = validated_data.get('style', instance.style)
         instance.save()
 
-	def create(self, validated_attrs):
-        return Snippet.objects.create(**validated_attrs)
+	def create(self, validated_data):
+        return Snippet.objects.create(**validated_data)
 
 Note that the `.create` method should return the newly created object instance.
 
@@ -134,15 +134,14 @@ For example the following code *is no longer valid*:
         serializer.object.user = request.user  # Include the user when saving.
         serializer.save()
 
-Instead of using `.object` to inspect a partially constructed instance, you would now use `.validated_data` to inspect the cleaned incoming values. Also you can't set extra attributes on the instance directly, but instead pass them to the `.save()` method using the `extras` keyword argument.
+Instead of using `.object` to inspect a partially constructed instance, you would now use `.validated_data` to inspect the cleaned incoming values. Also you can't set extra attributes on the instance directly, but instead pass them to the `.save()` method as keyword arguments.
 
 The corresponding code would now look like this:
 
     if serializer.is_valid():
         name = serializer.validated_data['name']  # Inspect validated field data.
         logging.info('Creating ticket "%s"' % name)
-        extras = {'user': request.user}  # Include the user when saving.
-        serializer.save(extras=extras)
+        serializer.save(user=request.user)  # Include the user when saving.
 
 #### Limitations of ModelSerializer validation.
 
diff --git a/rest_framework/mixins.py b/rest_framework/mixins.py
index de334b4b9..bc4ce22f1 100644
--- a/rest_framework/mixins.py
+++ b/rest_framework/mixins.py
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ class AllowPUTAsCreateMixin(object):
         if instance is None:
             lookup_url_kwarg = self.lookup_url_kwarg or self.lookup_field
             lookup_value = self.kwargs[lookup_url_kwarg]
-            extras = {self.lookup_field: lookup_value}
-            serializer.save(extras=extras)
+            extra_kwargs = {self.lookup_field: lookup_value}
+            serializer.save(**extra_kwargs)
             return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
 
         serializer.save()
diff --git a/rest_framework/serializers.py b/rest_framework/serializers.py
index c3a0815e2..ed024f87b 100644
--- a/rest_framework/serializers.py
+++ b/rest_framework/serializers.py
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ class BaseSerializer(Field):
     def create(self, validated_data):
         raise NotImplementedError('`create()` must be implemented.')
 
-    def save(self, extras=None):
+    def save(self, **kwargs):
         validated_data = self.validated_data
-        if extras is not None:
+        if kwargs:
             validated_data = dict(
                 list(validated_data.items()) +
-                list(extras.items())
+                list(kwargs.items())
             )
 
         if self.instance is not None:
@@ -256,7 +256,6 @@ class Serializer(BaseSerializer):
                 for field_name, field in self.fields.items()
                 if field.get_value(self._initial_data) is not empty
             ], serializer=self)
-            #return self.to_representation(self._initial_data)
 
         return ReturnDict([
             (field.field_name, field.get_initial())