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.
A pendulum-governed escapement of a clock, ticking every second. The second (symbol: s) (abbreviated s or sec) is the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI). It is qualitatively defined as the second division of the hour by sixty, the first division by sixty being the minute. SI definition of second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.