explanatory matter
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From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
Brackets are used to insert explanatory matter in a quotation which one gives from another writer.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever
The explanatory matter is made clear by the use of simple language, by the elimination of unnecessary technical terms, and by the frequent introduction of illustrative sentences.
From Health Lessons Book 1 by Alvin Davison
Such is the design of the following programs and explanatory matter.
From The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
It has been suggested that notes and hints should be appended to each case, but the purpose for which the collection is published is better served by giving the incidents devoid of any explanatory matter.
From International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
