diff --git a/core/UPDATE.txt b/core/UPDATE.txt
index b8146a2..502f8ce 100644
--- a/core/UPDATE.txt
+++ b/core/UPDATE.txt
@@ -64,16 +64,20 @@ following the instructions in the INTRODUCTION section at the top of this file:
    Enable the "Put site into maintenance mode" checkbox and save the
    configuration.
 
-3. Determine if your project is composer managed project. You can do this by
-   running "composer info drupal/core" from the command line. If this is
-   successful, you have a composer managed project. If you don't have composer
-   installed this can be determined by "drupal/core" in the "require" (note that
-   it will be present in the "replace" section).
+3. Determine if your project is managed by Composer. To determine this run the
+   following command:
 
-   If the project is not managed by composer skip to step 4.
+     composer info drupal/core
 
-   If the project is a composer managed project run the following command from
-   the command line in the root directory and skip to step 7.
+   If this is successful, your project is managed by Composer. If you don't have
+   Composer installed and "drupal/core" is present "require" section of
+   composer.json you have project managed by Composer and will need to install
+   Composer in order to update it.
+
+   If the project is not managed by Composer, go to step 4.
+
+   If the project is managed by Composer, run the following command from the
+   command line in the root directory and skip to step 7.
 
      composer update drupal/core --with-dependencies