diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
index 5de1491b3..3c8396aa1 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ The template name is determined by (in order of preference):
 
 An example of a view that uses `TemplateHTMLRenderer`:
 
-    class UserInstance(generics.RetrieveUserAPIView):
+    class UserDetail(generics.RetrieveUserAPIView):
         """
         A view that returns a templated HTML representations of a given user.
         """
@@ -301,4 +301,4 @@ Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily
 [juanriaza]: https://github.com/juanriaza
 [mjumbewu]: https://github.com/mjumbewu
 [djangorestframework-msgpack]: https://github.com/juanriaza/django-rest-framework-msgpack
-[djangorestframework-csv]: https://github.com/mjumbewu/django-rest-framework-csv
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+[djangorestframework-csv]: https://github.com/mjumbewu/django-rest-framework-csv
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
index 3c4e042b8..3ee755a2f 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/4-authentication-and-permissions.md
@@ -72,14 +72,14 @@ We'll also add a couple of views.  We'd like to just use read-only views for the
         serializer_class = UserSerializer
     
     
-    class UserInstance(generics.RetrieveAPIView):
+    class UserDetail(generics.RetrieveAPIView):
         model = User
         serializer_class = UserSerializer
 
 Finally we need to add those views into the API, by referencing them from the URL conf.
 
     url(r'^users/$', views.UserList.as_view()),
-    url(r'^users/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.UserInstance.as_view()),
+    url(r'^users/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.UserDetail.as_view()),
 
 ## Associating Snippets with Users
 
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
index 81be333bc..a702a09df 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/5-relationships-and-hyperlinked-apis.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ After adding all those names into our URLconf, our final `'urls.py'` file should
             views.UserList.as_view(),
             name='user-list'),
         url(r'^users/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$',
-            views.UserInstance.as_view(),
+            views.UserDetail.as_view(),
             name='user-detail')
     ))
     
@@ -173,4 +173,4 @@ We've reached the end of our tutorial.  If you want to get more involved in the
 [sandbox]: http://restframework.herokuapp.com/
 [github]: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework
 [group]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/django-rest-framework
-[twitter]: https://twitter.com/_tomchristie
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+[twitter]: https://twitter.com/_tomchristie