This type of literacy is referred to as academic literacy. Academic literacy involves the kinds of reading, learning, and understanding that are related to academic tasks in content areas. Successful performance in subject areas depends on strong reading skills.
minutes. n. 1) the written record of meetings, particularly of Boards of Directors and/or Shareholders of corporations, kept by the secretary of the corporation or organization.
How Long Is a Moment? In modern English, the term moment refers to an unspecific short amount of time. The term is thought to date to the 14th century and was used to refer to a period of 90 seconds. An hour in medieval times therefore consisted of 40 moments. The Hebrew calendar has a shorter definition of a moment, referred to as rega, which is roughly equivalent to 5/144 of a second.