diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
index e015a545f..2298df59a 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
@@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ The root of our API is going to be a view that supports listing all the existing
             if serializer.is_valid():
                 serializer.save()
                 return JSONResponse(serializer.data, status=201)
-            else:
-                return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
+            return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
 
 Note that because we want to be able to POST to this view from clients that won't have a CSRF token we need to mark the view as `csrf_exempt`.  This isn't something that you'd normally want to do, and REST framework views actually use more sensible behavior than this, but it'll do for our purposes right now. 
 
@@ -290,8 +289,7 @@ We'll also need a view which corresponds to an individual snippet, and can be us
             if serializer.is_valid():
                 serializer.save()
                 return JSONResponse(serializer.data)
-            else:
-                return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
+            return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
 
         elif request.method == 'DELETE':
             snippet.delete()
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md
index 7fa4f3e4a..603edd081 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/2-requests-and-responses.md
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ We don't need our `JSONResponse` class in `views.py` anymore, so go ahead and de
             if serializer.is_valid():
                 serializer.save()
                 return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
-            else:
-                return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
+            return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
 
 Our instance view is an improvement over the previous example.  It's a little more concise, and the code now feels very similar to if we were working with the Forms API.  We're also using named status codes, which makes the response meanings more obvious.
 
@@ -85,8 +84,7 @@ Here is the view for an individual snippet, in the `views.py` module.
             if serializer.is_valid():
                 serializer.save()
                 return Response(serializer.data)
-            else:
-                return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
+            return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)
 
         elif request.method == 'DELETE':
             snippet.delete()
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
index b472322a3..986f13ff3 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
@@ -163,15 +163,12 @@ In the snippets app, create a new file, `permissions.py`
         """
         Custom permission to only allow owners of an object to edit it.
         """
-
+    
         def has_object_permission(self, request, view, obj):
             # Read permissions are allowed to any request,
             # so we'll always allow GET, HEAD or OPTIONS requests.
-            if request.method in permissions.SAFE_METHODS:            
-                return True
-    
             # Write permissions are only allowed to the owner of the snippet
-            return obj.owner == request.user
+            return request.method in permissions.SAFE_METHODS or obj.owner == request.user
 
 Now we can add that custom permission to our snippet instance endpoint, by editing the `permission_classes` property on the `SnippetDetail` class: