diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index eee49f7..5472db2 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -4,7 +4,14 @@ Title: Tools for Creating, Updating, and Analyzing Survey Replicate Weights
 Version: 0.1.0
 Author: Ben Schneider
 Maintainer: Ben Schneider <benjamin.julius.schneider@gmail.com>
-Description: Provides tools for creating and working with survey replicate weights.
+Description: Provides tools for creating and working with survey replicate weights,
+  extending functionality of the 'survey' package from Lumley (2004) <doi:10.18637/jss.v009.i08>.
+  Methods are provided for applying nonresponse adjustments to
+  both full-sample and replicate weights as suggested by 
+  Rust and Rao (1996) <doi:10.1177/096228029600500305> in order to account for
+  the impact of these adjustments on sampling variances.
+  Diagnostic functions are included to compare weights and weighted estimates
+  from different sets of replicate weights.
 License: GPL (>= 3)
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true
diff --git a/man/svrep-package.Rd b/man/svrep-package.Rd
index 85517ad..ce682de 100644
--- a/man/svrep-package.Rd
+++ b/man/svrep-package.Rd
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
 \alias{svrep-package}
 \title{svrep: Tools for Creating, Updating, and Analyzing Survey Replicate Weights}
 \description{
-Provides tools for creating and working with survey replicate weights.
+Provides tools for creating and working with survey replicate weights, extending functionality of the 'survey' package from Lumley (2004) <doi:10.18637/jss.v009.i08>. Methods are provided for applying nonresponse adjustments to both full-sample and replicate weights as suggested by Rust and Rao (1996) <doi:10.1177/096228029600500305> in order to account for the impact of these adjustments on sampling variances. Diagnostic functions are included to compare weights and weighted estimates from different sets of replicate weights.
 }
 \keyword{internal}