Clarified About Modules section in about-packages-and-modules.mdx (#1148

) Updated the About Modules documentation section of <https://docs.npmjs.com/about-packages-and-modules> to improve clarity of messaging. Co-authored-by: Gar <[email protected]>
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@@ -56,9 +56,11 @@ To be loaded by the Node.js `require()` function, a module must be one of the fo
 
 In the context of a Node program, the `module` is also the thing that was loaded _from_ a file. For example, in the following program:
 
-    var req = require('request')
+```
+var req = require('request')
+```
 
-we might say that "The variable `req` refers to the `request` module".
+The `req` variable refers to the `request` module returned by the `require()` function.
 
 [about-scopes]: about-scopes
 [private-pkgs]: about-private-packages