How to Direct the Reader to the Background and Terminology Section? While writing a thesis, suppose that, one wants to inform the reader that he/she needs to have a basic knowledge of some topic to understand the following.

If the term is explained in Background and Terminology, how should I say this?


  For the readers who are not familiar with the term blah-blah, we
  explain it in detail in Section 1.2.


or


  We strongly encourage our readers to read Section 1.2 to obtain
  information about blah-blah.


or, what else?
I personally don't like making presumptions about the reader's knowledge when I am writing.  Someone may, for example, be familiar with a term or concept but use it in a difference sense than the paper does.  This is especially true in cross-disciplinary work or when there are unsettled scientific issues in play.  I thus prefer a value-neutral statement.  

For example, a general pointer might be:


  See Section 2 for a review of the background and terminology of this work


while a pointer for a specific element might be:


  We thus conclude that this snark is frabjous (for more details on frabjous evaluation, see Section 2.4).