diff --git a/docs/quick-start.md b/docs/quick-start.md
index cb5211af377e..7cb3f7513220 100644
--- a/docs/quick-start.md
+++ b/docs/quick-start.md
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ As an example, we'll create a simple Spark application, `SimpleApp.py`:
 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
 
 logFile = "YOUR_SPARK_HOME/README.md"  # Should be some file on your system
-spark = SparkSession.builder().appName(appName).master(master).getOrCreate()
+spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("SimpleApp").getOrCreate()
 logData = spark.read.text(logFile).cache()
 
 numAs = logData.filter(logData.value.contains('a')).count()
@@ -421,16 +421,15 @@ $ YOUR_SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit \
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 {% endhighlight %}
 
-If you have PySpark pip installed into your enviroment (e.g. `pip instal pyspark` you can run your application with the regular Python interpeter or use the provided spark-submit as you prefer.
+If you have PySpark pip installed into your enviroment (e.g., `pip install pyspark`), you can run your application with the regular Python interpreter or use the provided 'spark-submit' as you prefer.
 
 {% highlight bash %}
-# Use spark-submit to run your application
+# Use the Python interpreter to run your application
 $ python SimpleApp.py
 ...
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 {% endhighlight %}
 
-
 </div>
 </div>