diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index d0d9c45f7e5..6075ae32c51 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ details on these changes.
 * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 user sessions (that use the SHA-1 algorithm)
   will be removed.
 
-* The ``get_request`` argument for
+* The ``get_response`` argument for
   ``django.utils.deprecation.MiddlewareMixin.__init__()`` will be required and
   won't accept ``None``.