diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
index 5e6cfb31786c6d..b4f429d6f4ef14 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.md
+++ b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -2755,7 +2755,7 @@ changes:
 
 Read data from the file specified by `fd`.
 
-`buffer` is the buffer that the data will be written to.
+`buffer` is the buffer that the data (read from the fd) will be written to.
 
 `offset` is the offset in the buffer to start writing at.