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 noun form is minuteness. Minute comes from the Latin minutus, meaning little, small. 2.) When the accent is on the first syllable, MINute, it functions as a noun meaning one sixtieth of an hour, sixty seconds. Minute may also be a sixtieth of a degree of angular measure.