diff --git a/docs/topics/practices.rst b/docs/topics/practices.rst
index 298a078a7..a6d4f0d6d 100644
--- a/docs/topics/practices.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/practices.rst
@@ -34,15 +34,16 @@ Here's an example showing how to run a single spider with it.
         # Your spider definition
         ...
 
-    process = CrawlerProcess({
-        'USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)'
+    process = CrawlerProcess(settings={
+        'FEED_FORMAT': 'json',
+        'FEED_URI': 'items.json'
     })
 
     process.crawl(MySpider)
     process.start() # the script will block here until the crawling is finished
 
-Make sure to check :class:`~scrapy.crawler.CrawlerProcess` documentation to get
-acquainted with its usage details.
+Define settings within dictionary in CrawlerProcess. Make sure to check :class:`~scrapy.crawler.CrawlerProcess`
+documentation to get acquainted with its usage details.
 
 If you are inside a Scrapy project there are some additional helpers you can
 use to import those components within the project. You can automatically import