diff --git a/docs/syndication_feeds.txt b/docs/syndication_feeds.txt
index 0b402d01954..2a09307e098 100644
--- a/docs/syndication_feeds.txt
+++ b/docs/syndication_feeds.txt
@@ -114,10 +114,9 @@ Note:
       `object-relational mapper`_, ``items()`` doesn't have to return model
       instances. Although you get a few bits of functionality "for free" by
       using Django models, ``items()`` can return any type of object you want.
-    * If you are creating an Atom feed, rather than the default RSS feed, you
-      will want to set the ``subtitle`` attribute instead of the
-      ``description`` attribute. See `Publishing Atom and RSS feeds in
-      tandem`_, later, for an example.
+    * If you're creating an Atom feed, rather than an RSS feed, set the
+      ``subtitle`` attribute instead of the ``description`` attribute. See
+      `Publishing Atom and RSS feeds in tandem`_, later, for an example.
 
 One thing's left to do. In an RSS feed, each ``<item>`` has a ``<title>``,
 ``<link>`` and ``<description>``. We need to tell the framework what data to
@@ -302,7 +301,7 @@ Publishing Atom and RSS feeds in tandem
 ---------------------------------------
 
 Some developers like to make available both Atom *and* RSS versions of their
-feeds. That's easy to do with Django: Just create a subclass of your ``feed``
+feeds. That's easy to do with Django: Just create a subclass of your ``Feed``
 class and set the ``feed_type`` to something different. Then update your
 URLconf to add the extra versions.
 
@@ -322,16 +321,20 @@ Here's a full example::
 
     class AtomSiteNewsFeed(RssSiteNewsFeed):
         feed_type = Atom1Feed
-        subtitle = description
+        subtitle = RssSiteNewsFeed.description
 
 .. Note::
-    In Atom feeds, there is no feed-level description element. There *is* a
-    subtitle element, however. Your RSS feed description may be too verbose
-    for a subtitle, so Django does not automatically put the feed description
-    into the subtitle element. Instead, you should create a ``subtitle``
-    attribute in your model, containing an appropriate string. In the above
-    example, we have used the RSS feed's description, since it is quite short
-    already.
+    In this example, the RSS feed uses a ``description`` while the Atom feed
+    uses a ``subtitle``. That's because Atom feeds don't provide for a
+    feed-level "description," but they *do* provide for a "subtitle."
+
+    If you provide a ``description`` in your ``Feed`` class, Django will *not*
+    automatically put that into the ``subtitle`` element, because a subtitle
+    and description are not necessarily the same thing. Instead, you should
+    define a ``subtitle`` attribute.
+
+    In the above example, we simply set the Atom feed's ``subtitle`` to the
+    RSS feed's ``description``, because it's quite short already.
 
 And the accompanying URLconf::