diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0d755b6..b717729 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
+
 - Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
   (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
   rejected;  (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
@@ -291,8 +293,6 @@
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
-
 - Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
   inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
 
diff --git a/Python/marshal.c b/Python/marshal.c
index d540e87..8f8ac36 100644
--- a/Python/marshal.c
+++ b/Python/marshal.c
@@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@
 value has (or contains an object that has) an unsupported type.\n\
 \n\
 New in version 2.4: The version argument indicates the data format that\n\
-dumps should use (see below).");
+dumps should use.");
 
 
 static PyObject *