diff --git a/Doc/library/email.mime.rst b/Doc/library/email.mime.rst
index 2ce486820f0..d6addc8287d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.mime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.mime.rst
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Here are the classes:
    this data can be decoded by the standard Python module :mod:`sndhdr`, then the
    subtype will be automatically included in the :mailheader:`Content-Type` header.
    Otherwise you can explicitly specify the audio subtype via the *_subtype*
-   parameter.  If the minor type could not be guessed and *_subtype* was not given,
+   argument.  If the minor type could not be guessed and *_subtype* was not given,
    then :exc:`TypeError` is raised.
 
    Optional *_encoder* is a callable (i.e. function) which will perform the actual
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Here are the classes:
    this data can be decoded by the standard Python module :mod:`imghdr`, then the
    subtype will be automatically included in the :mailheader:`Content-Type` header.
    Otherwise you can explicitly specify the image subtype via the *_subtype*
-   parameter.  If the minor type could not be guessed and *_subtype* was not given,
+   argument.  If the minor type could not be guessed and *_subtype* was not given,
    then :exc:`TypeError` is raised.
 
    Optional *_encoder* is a callable (i.e. function) which will perform the actual
@@ -183,11 +183,11 @@ Here are the classes:
    :class:`MIMEText` class is used to create MIME objects of major type
    :mimetype:`text`. *_text* is the string for the payload.  *_subtype* is the
    minor type and defaults to :mimetype:`plain`.  *_charset* is the character
-   set of the text and is passed as a parameter to the
+   set of the text and is passed as an argument to the
    :class:`~email.mime.nonmultipart.MIMENonMultipart` constructor; it defaults
    to ``us-ascii``.
 
-   Unless the ``_charset`` parameter is explicitly set to ``None``, the
+   Unless the *_charset* argument is explicitly set to ``None``, the
    MIMEText object created will have both a :mailheader:`Content-Type` header
    with a ``charset`` parameter, and a :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Endcoding`
    header.  This means that a subsequent ``set_payload`` call will not result