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?