diff --git a/tensorflow/docs_src/community/style_guide.md b/tensorflow/docs_src/community/style_guide.md
index 602cb88d453..f90a6cf938d 100644
--- a/tensorflow/docs_src/community/style_guide.md
+++ b/tensorflow/docs_src/community/style_guide.md
@@ -162,9 +162,9 @@ operation.
   - `reuse`: `bool` indicator if the variable should be reused if
              it's present in the scope.
 
-* Layers that behave differently during training should have:
-  - `is_training`: `bool` indicator if the graph is being built for training.
-
+* Layers that behave differently during training should take:
+  - `is_training`: `bool` indicator to conditionally choose different 
+                   computation paths (e.g. using `tf.cond`) during execution.
 
 Example: