Polishing in RestClient reference docs

framework-docs/modules/ROOT/pages/integration/rest-clients.adoc

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 == `RestClient`
 
-The `RestClient` is a synchronous HTTP client that offers a modern, fluent API.
+`RestClient` is a synchronous HTTP client that provides a fluent API to perform requests.
-It offers an abstraction over HTTP libraries that allows for convenient conversion from a Java object to an HTTP request, and the creation of objects from an HTTP response.
+It serves as an abstraction over HTTP libraries, and handles conversion of HTTP request and response content to and from higher level Java objects.
 
-=== Creating a `RestClient`
+=== Create a `RestClient`
 
-The `RestClient` is created using one of the static `create` methods.
+`RestClient` has static `create` shortcut methods.
-You can also use `builder()` to get a builder with further options, such as specifying which HTTP library to use (see <<rest-request-factories>>) and which message converters to use (see <<rest-message-conversion>>), setting a default URI, default path variables, default request headers, or `uriBuilderFactory`, or registering interceptors and initializers.
+It also exposes a `builder()` with further options:
 
-Once created (or built), the `RestClient` can be used safely by multiple threads.
+- select the HTTP library to use, see <<rest-request-factories>>
+- configure message converters, see <<rest-message-conversion>>
+- set a baseUrl
+- set default request headers, cookies, path variables
+- register interceptors
+- register request initializers
 
-The following sample shows how to create a default `RestClient`, and how to build a custom one.
+Once created, a `RestClient` is safe to use in multiple threads.
+
+The below shows how to create or build a `RestClient`:
 
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-=== Using the `RestClient`
+=== Use the `RestClient`
 
-When making an HTTP request with the `RestClient`, the first thing to specify is which HTTP method to use.
+To perform an HTTP request, first specify the HTTP method to use.
-This can be done with `method(HttpMethod)` or with the convenience methods `get()`, `head()`, `post()`, and so on.
+Use the convenience methods like `get()`, `head()`, `post()`, and others, or `method(HttpMethod)`.
 
 ==== Request URL
 
-Next, the request URI can be specified with the `uri` methods.
+Next, specify the request URI with the `uri` methods.
-This step is optional and can be skipped if the `RestClient` is configured with a default URI.
+This is optional, and you can skip this step if you configured a baseUrl through the builder.
 The URL is typically specified as a `String`, with optional URI template variables.
-The following example configures a GET request to `https://example.com/orders/42`:
+The following shows how to perform a request:
 
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