diff --git a/gatk.wdl b/gatk.wdl
index 144d57390a9012704f2a757be3e50801cddd7041..e04d499699b050ae0ee887cefb7457dc7e3b4b07 100644
--- a/gatk.wdl
+++ b/gatk.wdl
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ task BaseRecalibrator {
         recalibrationReportPath: {description: "The location to write the BQSR report to.", category: "required"}
         sequenceGroupInterval: {description: "Bed files describing the regions to operate on.", category: "advancded"}
         knownIndelsSitesVCFs: {description: "VCf files with known indels.", category: "advanced"}
-        knownIndelsSitesVCFIndexes: {description: "The indexed for the known variant VCFs", category: "advanced"}
+        knownIndelsSitesVCFIndexes: {description: "The indexed for the known variant VCFs.", category: "advanced"}
         dbsnpVCF: {description: "A dbSNP VCF.", category: "common"}
         dbsnpVCFIndex: {description: "The index for the dbSNP VCF.", category: "common"}
         referenceFasta: {description: "The reference fasta file which was also used for mapping.",
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ task BaseRecalibrator {
         referenceFastaFai: {description: "The index for the reference fasta file.", category: "required"}
 
         memory: {description: "The amount of memory this job will use.", category: "advanced"}
-        javaXmx: {description: "The maximum memory available to the program. Should be lower than `memory` to accommodate JVM overhead.)",
+        javaXmx: {description: "The maximum memory available to the program. Should be lower than `memory` to accommodate JVM overhead.",
                   category: "advanced"}
         dockerImage: {description: "The docker image used for this task. Changing this may result in errors which the developers may choose not to address.",
                       category: "advanced"}