diff --git a/docs/api.rst b/docs/api.rst
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--- a/docs/api.rst
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@@ -13,12 +13,18 @@ important right here and provide links to the canonical documentation.
 Main Interface
 --------------
 
+All of Request's functionality can be accessed by these 5 methods. They
+all return a :class:`Response <models.Response>` object.
+
 .. autofunction:: get
 .. autofunction:: post
 .. autofunction:: put
 .. autofunction:: delete
 .. autofunction:: head
 
+-----------
+
+
 .. autoclass:: requests.models.Response
    :inherited-members: