diff --git a/README b/README
index 1b8bcfb..f35e634 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-JIRA::Client - An extended interface to JIRA's SOAP API.
+JIRA::Client - Extended interface to JIRA's SOAP API
 
 JIRA is a proprietary bug tracking system from Atlassian
 (http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/).
diff --git a/lib/JIRA/Client.pm b/lib/JIRA/Client.pm
index 94a9025..8b5b67c 100644
--- a/lib/JIRA/Client.pm
+++ b/lib/JIRA/Client.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 
 package JIRA::Client;
-# ABSTRACT: An extended interface to JIRA's SOAP API.
+# ABSTRACT: Extended interface to JIRA's SOAP API
 
 use Carp;
 use Data::Util qw(:check);