diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bcf6adb..b539cbb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -54,19 +54,18 @@ pub fn main() {
 
 If a text encoding is specified when opening a file stream it allows for
 reading and writing of characters and lines of text stored in that encoding.
-Open a text file stream using the `file_stream.open_read_text()` and
-`file_stream.open_write_text()`functions. The supported encodings are `Latin1`,
+To open a text file stream use the `file_stream.open_read_text()` and
+`file_stream.open_write_text()` functions. The supported encodings are `Latin1`,
 `Unicode` (UTF-8), `Utf16`, and `Utf32`. The default encoding is `Latin1`.
 
 File streams opened with a text encoding aren't compatible with the `Raw` file
-open mode that is used to significantly improve IO performance on Erlang.
-Specifying both `Raw` and `Encoding` when calling `file_stream.open()` returns
-`Error(Enotsup)`.
+open mode that significantly improves IO performance on Erlang. Specifying both
+`Raw` and `Encoding` when calling `file_stream.open()` returns `Error(Enotsup)`.
 
-Although a text encoding can't be specified with `Raw` mode,
-`file_stream.read_line()` and `file_stream.write_chars()` can still be used to
-work with UTF-8 data. This means that text encoded as UTF-8 can be handled with
-high performance in `Raw` mode.
+Although a text encoding can't be specified with `Raw` mode, the
+`file_stream.read_line()` and `file_stream.write_chars()` functions can still be
+used to work with UTF-8 data. This means that text encoded as UTF-8 can be
+handled with high performance in `Raw` mode.
 
 When a text encoding other than `Latin1` is specified, functions that read and
 write raw bytes and other binary data aren't supported and will return
diff --git a/src/file_streams/file_stream.gleam b/src/file_streams/file_stream.gleam
index db3c5d4..a84cb43 100644
--- a/src/file_streams/file_stream.gleam
+++ b/src/file_streams/file_stream.gleam
@@ -37,11 +37,12 @@ pub fn open(
   filename: String,
   modes: List(FileOpenMode),
 ) -> Result(FileStream, FileStreamError) {
-  let is_raw = list.contains(modes, file_open_mode.Raw)
+  let is_raw = modes |> list.contains(file_open_mode.Raw)
 
   // Find the text encoding, if one was specified
   let encoding =
-    list.find_map(modes, fn(m) {
+    modes
+    |> list.find_map(fn(m) {
       case m {
         file_open_mode.Encoding(e) -> Ok(e)
         _ -> Error(Nil)
@@ -55,13 +56,13 @@ pub fn open(
     True, Some(_) -> Error(file_stream_error.Enotsup)
 
     True, None -> Ok(None)
-    False, _ -> Ok(option.or(encoding, Some(text_encoding.Latin1)))
+    False, _ -> Ok(encoding |> option.or(Some(text_encoding.Latin1)))
   }
   use encoding <- result.try(encoding)
 
   // Binary mode is forced on so the Erlang APIs return binaries rather than
   // lists
-  let mode = case list.contains(modes, file_open_mode.Binary) {
+  let mode = case modes |> list.contains(file_open_mode.Binary) {
     True -> modes
     False -> [file_open_mode.Binary, ..modes]
   }
@@ -87,11 +88,13 @@ fn erl_file_open(
 /// - `Raw`
 ///
 pub fn open_read(filename: String) -> Result(FileStream, FileStreamError) {
-  open(filename, [
+  let modes = [
     file_open_mode.Read,
     file_open_mode.ReadAhead(64 * 1024),
     file_open_mode.Raw,
-  ])
+  ]
+
+  open(filename, modes)
 }
 
 /// Opens a new file stream for reading encoded text from a file. If only
@@ -111,11 +114,13 @@ pub fn open_read_text(
   filename: String,
   encoding: TextEncoding,
 ) -> Result(FileStream, FileStreamError) {
-  open(filename, [
+  let modes = [
     file_open_mode.Read,
     file_open_mode.ReadAhead(64 * 1024),
     file_open_mode.Encoding(encoding),
-  ])
+  ]
+
+  open(filename, modes)
 }
 
 /// Opens a new file stream for writing to a file. Allows for efficient writing
@@ -128,11 +133,13 @@ pub fn open_read_text(
 /// - `Raw`
 ///
 pub fn open_write(filename: String) -> Result(FileStream, FileStreamError) {
-  open(filename, [
+  let modes = [
     file_open_mode.Write,
     file_open_mode.DelayedWrite(size: 64 * 1024, delay: 2000),
     file_open_mode.Raw,
-  ])
+  ]
+
+  open(filename, modes)
 }
 
 /// Opens a new file stream for writing encoded text to a file. If only writing
@@ -141,8 +148,8 @@ pub fn open_write(filename: String) -> Result(FileStream, FileStreamError) {
 ///
 /// The modes used are:
 ///
-/// - `Read`
-/// - `ReadAhead(size: 64 * 1024)`
+/// - `Write`
+/// - `DelayedWrite(size: 64 * 1024, delay: 2000)`
 /// - `Encoding(encoding)`
 ///
 /// The text encoding for a file stream can be changed with
@@ -152,11 +159,13 @@ pub fn open_write_text(
   filename: String,
   encoding: TextEncoding,
 ) -> Result(FileStream, FileStreamError) {
-  open(filename, [
+  let modes = [
     file_open_mode.Write,
     file_open_mode.DelayedWrite(size: 64 * 1024, delay: 2000),
     file_open_mode.Encoding(encoding),
-  ])
+  ]
+
+  open(filename, modes)
 }
 
 /// Closes an open file stream.
diff --git a/src/file_streams/text_encoding.gleam b/src/file_streams/text_encoding.gleam
index 8b31d86..ba2ec25 100644
--- a/src/file_streams/text_encoding.gleam
+++ b/src/file_streams/text_encoding.gleam
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ pub type TextEncoding {
 /// Endianness specifier used by the `Utf16` and `Utf32` text encodings.
 ///
 pub type Endianness {
-  /// Big endian. This is much less common than little endian.
+  /// Big endian.
   Big
 
-  /// Little endian. This is much more common than big endian.
+  /// Little endian. The most common endianness mode, use this if uncertain.
   Little
 }