Scholarly Article Short Answer
Name: Megan DeVries
The easiest step to reading a scholarly article would be reading the introduction and
conclusion of the article. I am typically the person who skims through an article to get a sense of
what is going on before sitting down and reading it. This step made it easy for me to understand
what I was reading before I got into the methods and results. This was easy because I got the run
down before getting into the details.
I don’t think any part of reading this was difficult, however, if I must pick, I would say
looking at the literature review was difficult because I had a hard time finding it at first. Another
difficult one for me personally would be looking at the citations, I have always had a problem
with citations, whether it be citing my own sources or looking for them in an article. The format
can confuse me and the pressure of doing it right is overwhelming.
Topics in the article the were difficult to understand would have to be the treaties, I found
it hard to understand why we needed so many treaties to be able to explore space. If people want
to study space and explore that field, why can’t they? Why is it a threat? Why would we need
approval? I can understand that at the time it wasn’t the top priority given the war going on but if
both Russia and the US wanted to go, was it a problem because they didn’t know Russia’s
intentions? Maybe the US wanted to make sure Russia couldn’t get to space before they could.
The main idea of the article “Space Mining & Exploration: Facing a Pivotal Moment”
was to go over the past, present and future of space mining and exploring space. The article
covers the technological advances that are underway for space mining to become reality in the
future. Talking about the advantages going to space would have on the economy, including the
extraction of resources like platinum and water from asteroids. Also bringing up the legal and
ethical challenges that exploration would bring to the surface, such as who can mine in space.
The article suggests that these issues need to be resolved through international cooperation for
the subject of space mining to be explored further.
Citations:
Skauge, T. (2020). Space Mining & Exploration: A Pivotal Moment. EBSCO. https://eds-p-
ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=c4294288-eace-486f-
aa52-4756331020df%40redis
NimblyWise. (n.d.). How To Read Scholarly Material. Brightspace.
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