diff --git a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
index d6c4b1c1b..6a8a267b2 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ For example:
     from myapp.serializers import PurchaseSerializer
     from rest_framework import generics
 
-    class PurchaseList(generics.ListAPIView)
+    class PurchaseList(generics.ListAPIView):
         serializer_class = PurchaseSerializer
  
         def get_queryset(self):
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ For example if your URL config contained an entry like this:
 
 You could then write a view that returned a purchase queryset filtered by the username portion of the URL:
 
-    class PurchaseList(generics.ListAPIView)
+    class PurchaseList(generics.ListAPIView):
         serializer_class = PurchaseSerializer
  
         def get_queryset(self):
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ A final example of filtering the initial queryset would be to determine the init
 
 We can override `.get_queryset()` to deal with URLs such as `http://example.com/api/purchases?username=denvercoder9`, and filter the queryset only if the `username` parameter is included in the URL:
 
-    class PurchaseList(generics.ListAPIView)
+    class PurchaseList(generics.ListAPIView):
         serializer_class = PurchaseSerializer
  
         def get_queryset(self):
diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index 68b956822..946a59545 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ class Field(object):
         Called to set up a field prior to field_to_native or field_from_native.
 
         parent - The parent serializer.
-        model_field - The model field this field corresponds to, if one exists.
+        field_name - The name of the field being initialized.
         """
         self.parent = parent
         self.root = parent.root or parent