self-explanatory
The explanatory texts by the curators are very informative.
There may be a way round the problem by amending the explanatory memorandum.

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explanatory | American Dictionary

explanatory
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪkˈsplæn·əˌtɔr·i, -ˌtoʊr·i/
helping to make something clear or understandable:
an explanatory note

Examples of explanatory

explanatory
In conjunction, these properties of social-psychological research have impeded the development of theories with explanatory power and the ability to generate novel and nontrivial hypotheses.
More generally, greater synthesis of research findings and more explicit discussion of explanatory theories and concepts would have strengthened the value of the book.
But its explanatory power appears to wane after the 1930s, and it ultimately seems less important than either federalism or overall government structure.
Still, there might be room for improvements by including other explanatory variables in our policy interest rate model.
Unadjusted risk ratios for the incidence of schizophrenia were first calculated separately for each of these explanatory variables.
Nobody wants a theory whose restrictions are stricter than those found in the subject-matter, because it will have no explanatory power.
Of particular interest from the compositional standpoint is that the audience member can view and explore explanatory information prior to experiencing the work.
By contrast, their sensorimotor account, precisely because it rejects the idea that the brain constructs visual experiences, steps right over this explanatory gap.
It is difficult indeed to document accountability for one's practice without an explanatory framework within which to evaluate practice.
There are persuasive theoretical and empirical arguments in the literature that suggest corruption in particular may be a major explanatory factor in the resource curse.
On the other hand, leaders also mentioned the low quality of public management and corruption as the main explanatory factors for the state's poor performance.
Some celebrate this diversity, while others would prefer a more uniform explanatory outlook.
We have therefore reached the end of the explanatory and predictive capacity of power political theories.
These socio-economic variables have better explanatory power than simple time trends.
Participant homogeneity in relation to the overall research themes enables rapid focus to be achieved, as there is a little need for explanatory processes.
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