diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Dec 19 15:23:50 2012  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
+
+	* doc/syntax/methods.rdoc:  Add () around keyword arguments example for
+	  consistency.  Thanks to Josh Susser.
+
 Wed Dec 19 01:51:24 2012  CHIKANAGA Tomoyuki  <nagachika@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* vm.c (rb_vm_jump_tag_but_local_jump): remove unnecessary 2nd
diff --git a/doc/syntax/methods.rdoc b/doc/syntax/methods.rdoc
index 88a4378af8..15ca965774 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/methods.rdoc
+++ b/doc/syntax/methods.rdoc
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ This will raise a SyntaxError:
 
 Keyword arguments are similar to positional arguments with default values:
 
-  def add_values first: 1, second: 2
+  def add_values(first: 1, second: 2)
     first + second
   end