diff --git a/docs/discovery.md b/docs/discovery.md
index 330a41839b..b0a5e1f1b8 100644
--- a/docs/discovery.md
+++ b/docs/discovery.md
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ swarm is connected to the public internet. To create your cluster:
 
 2. Create each node and join them to the cluster.
 
-    On each of your nodes, start the swarm agent. The <node_ip> doesn't have to be public (eg. 192.168.0.X) but the the Swarm manager must be able to access it.
+    On each of your nodes, start the swarm agent. The node IP address doesn't have to be public (eg. 192.168.0.X) but the the Swarm manager must be able to access it.
 
         $ swarm join --advertise=<node_ip:2375> token://<cluster_id>