diff --git a/docs/001-custom-features.md b/docs/001-custom-features.md
index 2440941f..7cc561a4 100644
--- a/docs/001-custom-features.md
+++ b/docs/001-custom-features.md
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ platform settings. For our fork, this feature adds the capability to define a si
 
 ### Feature
 
-To define a d backend shall follow the following format by defining the storage class and its kwargs.
-As an example, below you will be find de Site Configuration definition to use an AWS S3 bucket:
+To define a desire backend, follow the following format by defining the storage class and its kwargs.
+As an example, below you will find the Site Configuration definition to use an AWS S3 bucket:
 
 "SGA_STORAGE_SETTINGS": {
     "STORAGE_CLASS": "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage",
@@ -56,4 +56,4 @@ As an example, below you will be find de Site Configuration definition to use an
 }
 
 Once it has been done, the SGA xblocks for the given site will manage the media objects with the defined storage backend.
-If no settings are defined, the Xblock will use the default Django storage
+If no settings are defined, the Xblock would use the default Django storage.
diff --git a/edx_sga/tests/test_utils.py b/edx_sga/tests/test_utils.py
index b72dcece..4b476a31 100644
--- a/edx_sga/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/edx_sga/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def test_get_default_storage_with_settings_override(mock_configuration_helpers):
                     "access_key": "test_key",
                     "secret_key": "test_secret",
                     "bucket_name": "test-bucket-1",
-                    "region_name": "us-east-1"
+                    "region_name": "us-east-1",
                 }
             }
         },
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@ def test_get_default_storage_without_settings_override(mock_configuration_helper
     """
     get_default_storage should return default_storage object
     """
-    mock_configuration_helpers.return_value.get_value.return_value = ({})
+    mock_configuration_helpers.return_value.get_value.return_value = {}
     storage = get_default_storage()
     assert storage == default_storage
diff --git a/edx_sga/utils.py b/edx_sga/utils.py
index 1b3dee84..8fc11901 100644
--- a/edx_sga/utils.py
+++ b/edx_sga/utils.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ def get_default_storage():
     sga_storage_settings = configuration_helpers.get_value('SGA_STORAGE_SETTINGS', None)
 
     if sga_storage_settings:
-        sga_storage_settings['STORAGE_KWARGS']
         return get_storage_class(
             sga_storage_settings['STORAGE_CLASS']
         )(**sga_storage_settings['STORAGE_KWARGS'])