diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ We'll also need to create an initial migration for our snippet model, and sync t
 The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is to provide a way of serializing and deserializing the snippet instances into representations such as `json`.  We can do this by declaring serializers that work very similar to Django's forms.  Create a file in the `snippets` directory named `serializers.py` and add the following.
 
     from rest_framework import serializers
-    from snippets.models import Snippet, LANGUAGE_CHOICES, STYLE_CHOICES
+    from .models import Snippet, LANGUAGE_CHOICES, STYLE_CHOICES
 
 
     class SnippetSerializer(serializers.Serializer):