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.
The book states that to be more precise, a degree is divided up into sixty equal parts called minutes, and that each minute is divided into sixty equal parts called seconds. This makes sense since we already know that there are sixty seconds in a minute.