diff --git a/docs/methods.rst b/docs/methods.rst
index 25ad760e70..d04fb956c4 100644
--- a/docs/methods.rst
+++ b/docs/methods.rst
@@ -551,8 +551,8 @@ The cost function consists of three components: energy, unreweighted variance, a
      <cost name="unreweightedvariance">     0.00 </cost>
      <cost name="reweightedvariance">       0.05 </cost>
 
-Varational paramemter selection
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Varational parameter selection
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The predominant way of selecting varational paramemters is via ``<wavefunction>`` input.
 ``<coefficients>`` entries support ``optimize="yes"/"no"`` to enable/disable variational parameters in the wavefunction optimization.
 The secondary way of selecting varational paramemters is via ``variational_subset`` parameter in the ``<qmc>`` driver input.
diff --git a/src/QMCDrivers/WFOpt/QMCCostFunctionBase.cpp b/src/QMCDrivers/WFOpt/QMCCostFunctionBase.cpp
index 43511dd9d0..110e790d90 100644
--- a/src/QMCDrivers/WFOpt/QMCCostFunctionBase.cpp
+++ b/src/QMCDrivers/WFOpt/QMCCostFunctionBase.cpp
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ bool QMCCostFunctionBase::put(xmlNodePtr q)
     if (obj.isOptimized())
       obj.checkInVariablesExclusive(OptVariablesForPsi);
   OptVariablesForPsi.resetIndex();
-  app_log() << "In total " << OptVariablesForPsi.size() << " parameters being optimzied." << std::endl;
+  app_log() << " Variational subset selects " << OptVariablesForPsi.size() << " parameters." << std::endl;
 
   //synchronize OptVariables and OptVariablesForPsi
   OptVariables  = OptVariablesForPsi;
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ bool QMCCostFunctionBase::put(xmlNodePtr q)
     APP_ABORT("QMCCostFunctionBase::put No valid optimizable variables are found.");
   }
   else
-    app_log() << " Totally " << NumOptimizables << " parameters being optimized after applying constraints." << std::endl;
+    app_log() << " In total " << NumOptimizables << " parameters being optimized after applying constraints." << std::endl;
   //     app_log() << "<active-optimizables> " << std::endl;
   //     OptVariables.print(app_log());
   //     app_log() << "</active-optimizables>" << std::endl;