"self-explained" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to indicate that something is obvious and doesn't need further explanation. For example: "The instructions were self-explained, so I was able to easily complete the task."
As Self explained, "People are beginning to see the interest in them.
Officers use the transfers "to break that smuggling cycle, to separate the smuggled aliens from the smugglers and the guides," Commander Self explained.
The torrent of Olympics-related ads is past, election campaign commercials are about to end and dot-com advertising is a shadow of its former self, explained Lauren Rich Fine, a Merrill Lynch analyst.
'I took Jamie Carragher's advice and tried to repeat what Bruce Grobbelaar did in 1984.' That was a shootout victory, too, against Roma, and Grobbelaar him self explained what happened.
"What you are seeing is a swimming stage, probably a few more molts before they settle into their crab stage self," explained Waikiki Aquarium biologist Norton Chan to KHON.
How can the movement from the "utilitarian self" to the "expressive self" explain the marriage gap?
Charles Horton Cooley's 1902 notion of the "looking glass self" explains that we use others' expressions (smiles), behaviors (acknowledging us) and reactions (listening to us or insulting us) to define ourselves.
"The way we speak is a window onto our inner self," explains Nick Miller at Newcastle University.
Note to self: explain what a fib is when we get home.
The study suggests that the ability to constantly edit information about the self towards one's notion of our ideal self explains why participants who edited their profile during the experiment reported the highest levels of self-esteem.
They either observed (control condition), predicted, or predicted and self-explained the moves of the computer playing a chess endgame of King and Rook against King.
