diff --git a/assignments/week-2-assignment-1/Assignment-Description.txt b/assignments/week-2-assignment-1/Assignment-Description.txt
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--- a/assignments/week-2-assignment-1/Assignment-Description.txt
+++ b/assignments/week-2-assignment-1/Assignment-Description.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Week 2: Programming Assignment 1
 Released Monday, May 19th, 2014
 Due Monday, June 2nd, 2014
 
-In this seonc assignment, you will implement a subset of the
+In this second assignment, you will implement a subset of the
 java.util.concurrent.atomic.SimpleAtomicLong class using a Java
 ReentrantReadWriteLock.  The goal is to understand how to use
 ReentrantReadWriteLock to serialize access to a variable that's shared