diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index fb2d006..1d1d4dc 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -32,15 +32,18 @@
 //! [`ureq::put`](fn.put.html), etc).
 //!
 //! These top level http method functions create a [Request](struct.Request.html) instance
-//! which follows a build pattern. The builders are finished using
-//! [`.call()`](struct.Request.html#method.call),
-//! [`.send_string()`](struct.Request.html#method.send_string) or
-//! [`.send_json()`](struct.Request.html#method.send_json).
+//! which follows a build pattern. The builders are finished using:
+//!
+//! * [`.call()`](struct.Request.html#method.call) without a request body.
+//! * [`.send()`](struct.Request.html#method.send) with a request body as `Read`.
+//! * [`.send_string()`](struct.Request.html#method.send_string) body as string.
+//! * [`.send_json()`](struct.Request.html#method.send_json) body as serde json.
 //!
 //! # Agents
 //!
 //! To maintain a state, cookies, between requests, you use an [agent](struct.Agent.html).
-//! Agents also follow the build pattern. Agents are created with `ureq::agent().build()`.
+//! Agents also follow the build pattern. Agents are created with
+//! [`ureq::agent().build()`](struct.Agent.html).
 //!
 //! # Content-Length
 //!
diff --git a/src/request.rs b/src/request.rs
index 066fcdb..bba720d 100644
--- a/src/request.rs
+++ b/src/request.rs
@@ -201,7 +201,16 @@ impl Request {
     ///
     /// The `Content-Length` header is not set because we can't know the length of the reader.
     ///
+    /// ```
+    /// use std::io::Cursor;
     ///
+    /// let text = "Hello there!\n";
+    /// let read = Cursor::new(text.to_string().into_bytes());
+    ///
+    /// let resp = ureq::post("/somewhere")
+    ///     .set("Content-Type", "text/plain")
+    ///     .send(read);
+    /// ```
     pub fn send<R>(&mut self, reader: R) -> Response
     where
         R: Read + Send + 'static,
diff --git a/src/response.rs b/src/response.rs
index 63830d7..3953a83 100644
--- a/src/response.rs
+++ b/src/response.rs
@@ -221,9 +221,9 @@ impl Response {
 
     /// Turn this response into a `impl Read` of the body.
     ///
-    /// 1. If "Transfer-Encoding: chunked", the returned reader will unchunk it
-    ///    and any "Content-Length" header is ignored.
-    /// 2. If "Content-Length" is set, the returned reader is limited to this byte
+    /// 1. If `Transfer-Encoding: chunked`, the returned reader will unchunk it
+    ///    and any `Content-Length` header is ignored.
+    /// 2. If `Content-Length` is set, the returned reader is limited to this byte
     ///    length regardless of how many bytes the server sends.
     /// 3. If no length header, the reader is until server stream end.
     ///
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ impl Response {
     }
 
     /// Turn this response into a String of the response body. Attempts to respect the
-    /// character encoding of the "Content-Type" and falls back to `utf-8`.
+    /// character encoding of the `Content-Type` header and falls back to `utf-8`.
     ///
     /// This is potentially memory inefficient for large bodies since the
     /// implementation first reads the reader to end into a `Vec<u8>` and then