diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index a06edbc5ab..c0b3e7225f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -27,15 +27,15 @@ Please see the documentation under ``doc/source/`` for development setup
 Building the Documentation
 --------------------------
 
-The documentation is all generated with Sphinx from within the docs directory.
+The documentation is all generated with Sphinx from within the doc directory.
 To generate the full set of HTML documentation::
 
-    cd docs
+    cd doc
     make autodoc
     make html
     make man
 
-the results are in the ``docs/build/html`` and ``docs/build/man`` directories
+the results are in the ``doc/build/html`` and ``doc/build/man`` directories
 respectively.
 
 
@@ -218,4 +218,4 @@ then do what is effectively a 'Simple Match' style match against the creds.
 Dependencies
 ----------------------------------
 
-Ensure an OpenSSL version of 1.0+ is installed.
\ No newline at end of file
+Ensure an OpenSSL version of 1.0+ is installed.