diff --git a/man3/assert.3 b/man3/assert.3
index 7cf732860..1b85a6848 100644
--- a/man3/assert.3
+++ b/man3/assert.3
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:42:42 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
 .\" Modified Tue Oct 22 23:44:11 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
+.\" Modified Thu Jun  2 23:44:11 2016 by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>
 .TH ASSERT 3  2015-08-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 assert \- abort the program if assertion is false
@@ -34,26 +35,26 @@ assert \- abort the program if assertion is false
 .BI "void assert(scalar " expression );
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-If the macro
-.B NDEBUG
-was defined at the moment
-.I <assert.h>
-was last included, the macro
-.BR assert ()
-generates no code, and hence does nothing at all.
-Otherwise, the macro
-.BR assert ()
-prints an error message to standard error and terminates the program
-by calling
+This macro can help programmers find bugs in their programs, or handle exceptional cases
+via a crash that will produce limited debugging output. The function will print an
+error message to standard error, e.g., "assertion failed in file foo.c, function do_bar(), line 1287"
+and terminate the program by calling
 .BR abort (3)
 if
 .I expression
 is false (i.e., compares equal to zero).
 .LP
-The purpose of this macro is to help programmers find bugs in
-their programs.
-The message "assertion failed in file foo.c, function
-do_bar(), line 1287" is of no help at all to a user.
+If the macro
+.B NDEBUG
+is defined at the moment
+.I <assert.h>
+was last included, the macro
+.BR assert ()
+generates no code, and hence does nothing at all. It is not recommended to define 
+.B NDEBUG
+if using
+.BR assert ()
+to detect error conditions since the software may behave non-deterministically.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 No value is returned.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES