diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst
index 1eeae23dd..7af5db9e8 100644
--- a/docs/faq.rst
+++ b/docs/faq.rst
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Does Scrapy manage cookies automatically?
 Yes, Scrapy receives and keeps track of cookies sent by servers, and sends them
 back on subsequent requests, like any regular web browser does.
 
-For more info see :ref:`topics-request-response` , :ref:`cookies-mw` and :ref:`cookiejars`.
+For more info see :ref:`topics-request-response`, :ref:`cookies-mw` and :ref:`cookiejars`.
 
 How can I see the cookies being sent and received from Scrapy?
 --------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
index b62c59ebf..b7661e68f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
@@ -297,7 +297,9 @@ Here's an example of a log with :setting:`COOKIES_DEBUG` enabled::
 
 Direct access to cookiejars from spider
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-On some cases it is required to directly set specific values to existing cookiejar
+
+In some cases it is required to directly set specific values in an existing
+cookiejar.
 
 .. code-block:: python