diff --git a/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt b/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
index 7497da52b0..9d1630ce14 100644
--- a/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/reusable-apps.txt
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ After the previous tutorials, our project should look like this::
                     results.html
             urls.py
             views.py
-        mytemplates/
+        templates/
             admin/
                 base_site.html
 
-You created ``mysite/mytemplates`` in :doc:`Tutorial 2 </intro/tutorial02>`,
+You created ``mysite/templates`` in :doc:`Tutorial 2 </intro/tutorial02>`,
 and ``polls/templates`` in :doc:`Tutorial 3 </intro/tutorial03>`. Now perhaps
 it is clearer why we chose to have separate template directories for the
 project and application: everything that is part of the polls application is in
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial02.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial02.txt
index 128e1b0a57..1f7c0e8501 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial02.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial02.txt
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ system.
 Customizing your *project's* templates
 --------------------------------------
 
-Create a ``mytemplates`` directory in your project directory. Templates can
+Create a ``templates`` directory in your project directory. Templates can
 live anywhere on your filesystem that Django can access. (Django runs as
 whatever user your server runs.) However, keeping your templates within the
 project is a good convention to follow.
@@ -449,16 +449,16 @@ By default, :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` is empty. So, let's add a line to it, to
 tell Django where our templates live::
 
     TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
-        '/path/to/mysite/mytemplates', # Change this to your own directory.
+        '/path/to/mysite/templates', # Change this to your own directory.
     )
 
 Now copy the template ``admin/base_site.html`` from within the default Django
 admin template directory in the source code of Django itself
 (``django/contrib/admin/templates``) into an ``admin`` subdirectory of
 whichever directory you're using in :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS`. For example, if
-your :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` includes ``'/path/to/mysite/mytemplates'``, as
+your :setting:`TEMPLATE_DIRS` includes ``'/path/to/mysite/templates'``, as
 above, then copy ``django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html`` to
-``/path/to/mysite/mytemplates/admin/base_site.html``. Don't forget that
+``/path/to/mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html``. Don't forget that
 ``admin`` subdirectory.
 
 .. admonition:: Where are the Django source files?
diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
index abc61a23ba..975e3fc668 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Django knows to find the polls templates even though we didn't modify
     and it would work perfectly well. However, this template belongs to the
     polls application, so unlike the admin template we created in the previous
     tutorial, we'll put this one in the application's template directory
-    (``polls/templates``) rather than the project's (``mytemplates``). We'll
+    (``polls/templates``) rather than the project's (``templates``). We'll
     discuss in more detail in the :doc:`reusable apps tutorial
     </intro/reusable-apps>` *why* we do this.