diff --git a/docs/basics.rst b/docs/basics.rst
index b09e814..4bdd9e3 100644
--- a/docs/basics.rst
+++ b/docs/basics.rst
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ We can imperatively construct a completely equivalent schema like so:
    friend.add(colander.SchemaNode(colander.Int(),
                                  validator=colander.Range(0, 9999),
               name='rank'))
-   friend.add(colander.SchemaNode(colander.String()), name='name')
+   friend.add(colander.SchemaNode(colander.String(), name='name')
 
    phone = colander.SchemaNode(Mapping())
    phone.add(colander.SchemaNode(colander.String(),