diff --git a/core/core.api.php b/core/core.api.php
index ee32e87..233d74b 100644
--- a/core/core.api.php
+++ b/core/core.api.php
@@ -283,16 +283,15 @@
  *
  * The first task in using the simple configuration API is to define the
  * configuration file structure, file name, and schema of your settings (see
- * @ref sec_yaml above). Once you have done that, you can retrieve the
- * active configuration object that corresponds to configuration file
- * mymodule.foo.yml with a call to:
+ * @ref sec_yaml above). Once you have done that, you can retrieve the active
+ * configuration object that corresponds to configuration file mymodule.foo.yml
+ * with a call to:
  * @code
  * $config = \Drupal::config('mymodule.foo');
  * @endcode
- *
  * This will be an object of class \Drupal\Core\Config\Config, which has methods
- * for getting and setting configuration information.  For instance, if your
- * YAML file structure looks like this:
+ * for getting configuration information. For instance, if your YAML file
+ * structure looks like this:
  * @code
  * enabled: '0'
  * bar:
@@ -307,9 +306,35 @@
  * $bar = $config->get('bar');
  * // Get one element of the array.
  * $bar_baz = $config->get('bar.baz');
- * // Update a value. Nesting works the same as get().
- * $config->set('bar.baz', 'string2');
- * // Nothing actually happens with set() until you call save().
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * The Config object that was obtained and used in the previous examples does
+ * not allow you to change configuration. If you want to change configuration,
+ * you will instead need to get the Config object by making a call to
+ * getEditable() on the config factory:
+ * @code
+ * $config =\Drupal::service('config.factory')->getEditable('mymodule.foo');
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * Individual configuration values can be changed or added using the set()
+ * method:
+ * @code
+ * // Set a scalar value.
+ * $config->set('enabled', 1);
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * Configuration values can also be unset using the clear() method, which is
+ * also chainable:
+ * @code
+ * $config->clear('bar.boo')->save();
+ * $config_data = $config->get('bar');
+ * @endcode
+ * In this example $config_data would return an array with one key - 'baz' -
+ * because 'boo' was unset.
+ *
+ * Finally, all changes can then be saved using the save() method:
+ * @code
+ * // Save the configuration.
  * $config->save();
  * @endcode
  *