diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ea9e6be7f..b94195288 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 - rust-polars is updated to 0.38.3 (#937).
   - New argument `non_existent` in `$replace_time_zone()` to specify what should
     happen when a datetime doesn't exist.
-  - In rolling aggregation functions (such as `$rolling_mean()`), the default
-    value of argument `closed` now is `NULL`. Using `closed` with a fixed
+  - In rolling aggregation functions (such as `$rolling_mean()`), the default 
+    value of argument `closed` now is `NULL`. Using `closed` with a fixed 
     `window_size` now throws an error.
 
 ### Other breaking changes
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
   - Unify names of input/output function arguments (935).
     - All arguments except the first argument must be named arguments.
     - In `pl$read_*` and `pl$scan_*` functions, the first argument is now `source`.
-    - In `<DataFrame>$write_*` and  `<LazyFrame>$sink_*` functions, the first argument is now `file`.
+    - In `<DataFrame>$write_*` functions, the first argument is now `file`.
+    - In `<LazyFrame>$sink_*` functions, the first argument is now `path`.
 - The argument `columns` in `$drop()` is removed. `$drop()` now accepts several
   character scalars, such as `$drop("a", "b", "c")` (#912).
 - In `pl$col()`, the `name` argument is removed, and the `...` argument no longer
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@
 - New function `is_polars_dtype()` (#927).
 - New method `<LazyFrame>to_dot()` to print the query plan of a LazyFrame with
   graphviz dot syntax (#928).
-- Argument `ambiguous` can now take the value `"null"` to convert ambigous
+- Argument `ambiguous` can now take the value `"null"` to convert ambigous 
   datetimes to null values (#937).
 
 ## Polars R Package 0.15.1
diff --git a/R/lazyframe__lazy.R b/R/lazyframe__lazy.R
index b7a4d9dbd..f9f0e33b8 100644
--- a/R/lazyframe__lazy.R
+++ b/R/lazyframe__lazy.R
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ LazyFrame_collect_in_background = function() {
 #' This writes the output of a query directly to a Parquet file without collecting
 #' it in the R session first. This is useful if the output of the query is still
 #' larger than RAM as it would crash the R session if it was collected into R.
-#' @param file A character. File path to which the file should be written.
+#' @param path A character. File path to which the file should be written.
 #' @param ... Ignored.
 #' @param compression String. The compression method. One of:
 #' * "lz4": fast compression/decompression.
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ LazyFrame_collect_in_background = function() {
 #' # load parquet directly into a DataFrame / memory
 #' pl$scan_parquet(tmpf2)$collect()
 LazyFrame_sink_parquet = function(
-    file,
+    path,
     ...,
     compression = "zstd",
     compression_level = 3,
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_parquet = function(
 
   lf |>
     .pr$LazyFrame$sink_parquet(
-      file,
+      path,
       compression,
       compression_level,
       statistics,
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_parquet = function(
 #' # load ipc directly into a DataFrame / memory
 #' # pl$scan_ipc(tmpf2)$collect()
 LazyFrame_sink_ipc = function(
-    file,
+    path,
     ...,
     compression = "zstd",
     maintain_order = TRUE,
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_ipc = function(
 
   lf |>
     .pr$LazyFrame$sink_ipc(
-      file,
+      path,
       compression,
       maintain_order
     ) |>
@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_ipc = function(
 #' # load parquet directly into a DataFrame / memory
 #' pl$scan_csv(tmpf2)$collect()
 LazyFrame_sink_csv = function(
-    file,
+    path,
     ...,
     include_bom = FALSE,
     include_header = TRUE,
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_csv = function(
 
   lf |>
     .pr$LazyFrame$sink_csv(
-      file,
+      path,
       include_bom,
       include_header,
       separator,
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_csv = function(
 #' # load parquet directly into a DataFrame / memory
 #' pl$scan_ndjson(tmpf)$collect()
 LazyFrame_sink_ndjson = function(
-    file,
+    path,
     ...,
     maintain_order = TRUE,
     type_coercion = TRUE,
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_ndjson = function(
 
   lf |>
     .pr$LazyFrame$sink_json(
-      file,
+      path,
       maintain_order
     ) |>
     unwrap("in $sink_ndjson()") |>
diff --git a/man/IO_sink_csv.Rd b/man/IO_sink_csv.Rd
index d40028920..ed3162943 100644
--- a/man/IO_sink_csv.Rd
+++ b/man/IO_sink_csv.Rd
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 \title{Stream the output of a query to a CSV file}
 \usage{
 LazyFrame_sink_csv(
-  file,
+  path,
   ...,
   include_bom = FALSE,
   include_header = TRUE,
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_csv(
 )
 }
 \arguments{
-\item{file}{File path to which the result should be written.}
+\item{path}{A character. File path to which the file should be written.}
 
 \item{...}{Ignored.}
 
diff --git a/man/IO_sink_ipc.Rd b/man/IO_sink_ipc.Rd
index da564daf1..2fd6bea6a 100644
--- a/man/IO_sink_ipc.Rd
+++ b/man/IO_sink_ipc.Rd
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 \title{Stream the output of a query to an Arrow IPC file}
 \usage{
 LazyFrame_sink_ipc(
-  file,
+  path,
   ...,
   compression = "zstd",
   maintain_order = TRUE,
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_ipc(
 )
 }
 \arguments{
-\item{file}{A character. File path to which the file should be written.}
+\item{path}{A character. File path to which the file should be written.}
 
 \item{...}{Ignored.}
 
diff --git a/man/IO_sink_ndjson.Rd b/man/IO_sink_ndjson.Rd
index 794c3bf5a..33ab16293 100644
--- a/man/IO_sink_ndjson.Rd
+++ b/man/IO_sink_ndjson.Rd
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 \title{Stream the output of a query to a JSON file}
 \usage{
 LazyFrame_sink_ndjson(
-  file,
+  path,
   ...,
   maintain_order = TRUE,
   type_coercion = TRUE,
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_ndjson(
 )
 }
 \arguments{
-\item{file}{File path to which the result should be written.}
+\item{path}{A character. File path to which the file should be written.}
 
 \item{...}{Ignored.}
 
diff --git a/man/IO_sink_parquet.Rd b/man/IO_sink_parquet.Rd
index 3445da70b..ef2d7550a 100644
--- a/man/IO_sink_parquet.Rd
+++ b/man/IO_sink_parquet.Rd
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 \title{Stream the output of a query to a Parquet file}
 \usage{
 LazyFrame_sink_parquet(
-  file,
+  path,
   ...,
   compression = "zstd",
   compression_level = 3,
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ LazyFrame_sink_parquet(
 )
 }
 \arguments{
-\item{file}{A character. File path to which the file should be written.}
+\item{path}{A character. File path to which the file should be written.}
 
 \item{...}{Ignored.}
 
diff --git a/man/IO_write_parquet.Rd b/man/IO_write_parquet.Rd
index beee86699..be497c5b8 100644
--- a/man/IO_write_parquet.Rd
+++ b/man/IO_write_parquet.Rd
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DataFrame_write_parquet(
 )
 }
 \arguments{
-\item{file}{A character. File path to which the file should be written.}
+\item{file}{File path to which the result should be written.}
 
 \item{...}{Ignored.}