diff --git a/registry_module.go b/registry_module.go
index f3ebbfffd..67bf1fa12 100644
--- a/registry_module.go
+++ b/registry_module.go
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ const (
 // Use NewPublicRegistryModuleID or NewPrivateRegistryModuleID to build one
 
 type RegistryModuleID struct {
-	// The unique external ID of the organization. If given, the other fields are ignored.
-	ExternalID string
+	// The unique ID of the module. If given, the other fields are ignored.
+	ID string
 	// The organization the module belongs to, see RegistryModule.Organization.Name
 	Organization string
 	// The name of the module, see RegistryModule.Name
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ func (r *registryModules) Read(ctx context.Context, moduleID RegistryModuleID) (
 	}
 
 	var u string
-	if moduleID.ExternalID == "" {
+	if moduleID.ID == "" {
 		if moduleID.RegistryName == "" {
 			log.Println("[WARN] Support for using the RegistryModuleID without RegistryName is deprecated as of release 1.5.0 and may be removed in a future version. The preferred method is to include the RegistryName in RegistryModuleID.")
 			moduleID.RegistryName = PrivateRegistry
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ func (r *registryModules) Read(ctx context.Context, moduleID RegistryModuleID) (
 			url.PathEscape(moduleID.Provider),
 		)
 	} else {
-		u = fmt.Sprintf("registry-modules/%s", url.PathEscape(moduleID.ExternalID))
+		u = fmt.Sprintf("registry-modules/%s", url.PathEscape(moduleID.ID))
 	}
 
 	req, err := r.client.NewRequest("GET", u, nil)
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ func (r *registryModules) DeleteVersion(ctx context.Context, moduleID RegistryMo
 }
 
 func (o RegistryModuleID) valid() error {
-	if validString(&o.ExternalID) && validStringID(&o.ExternalID) {
+	if validString(&o.ID) && validStringID(&o.ID) {
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/registry_module_integration_test.go b/registry_module_integration_test.go
index 5dffffd60..c33222e01 100644
--- a/registry_module_integration_test.go
+++ b/registry_module_integration_test.go
@@ -1193,9 +1193,9 @@ func TestRegistryModulesRead(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	})
 
-	t.Run("with a external ID field for private module", func(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("with a unique ID field for private module", func(t *testing.T) {
 		rm, err := client.RegistryModules.Read(ctx, RegistryModuleID{
-			ExternalID: registryModuleTest.ID,
+			ID: registryModuleTest.ID,
 		})
 		require.NoError(t, err)
 		require.NotEmpty(t, rm)
diff --git a/tfe.go b/tfe.go
index d91432aa3..a4f40be3e 100644
--- a/tfe.go
+++ b/tfe.go
@@ -319,12 +319,7 @@ func (c *Client) NewRequestWithAdditionalQueryParams(method, path string, reqBod
 		q[k] = v
 	}
 
-	encodedParams := encodeQueryParams(q)
-	if u.RawQuery == "" {
-		u.RawQuery = encodedParams
-	} else if encodedParams != "" {
-		u.RawQuery = strings.Join([]string{u.RawQuery, encodedParams}, "&")
-	}
+	u.RawQuery = encodeQueryParams(q)
 
 	req, err := retryablehttp.NewRequest(method, u.String(), body)
 	if err != nil {