Would you be happy to use a figure from published work (not your own) in your thesis to illustrate a point, or for comparison with your own results where you don't have access to the authors' raw data?
I'm not sure about it personally...the reader could easily go look up the figure you're referring to and read YOUR discussion of it while looking at the original results. Why resort to copying the figure into your own thesis?
I've seen it done, so it obviously isn't a problem, but I'm just not sure about it...

It's in the Oxford English Dictionary too. But what really interested me was the 'potein' bit - presumably this is the part of sympotein that means drink, and I soon thought of the Irish alcoholic drink poteen (poitin) - in this case wikipedia says the name comes from 'pot' because the drink was distilled in a small pot. Very interesting.

Sorry to have got your hopes up oz...

Go on - get the 1600th post - it'll make you feel better (if you haven't gone to sleep)

Hi piglet! Sorry to hear your rant on the other thread
Anyway, you're a winner here - or you WERE
Smiley Fest!!!

Oh. Today?

Brian's submitting on Friday...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6929290.stm

I win!

Hmm, maybe Melanie then?? (from the Welsh one)

I've cried at the library...

As a pupil, I always liked having PhD teachers. That said, the most amazing teacher I had was a non-PhDer. So, I don't think having a PhD makes you a good teacher, you should do a PhD only because you want to. But it's certainly not a waste of time. My school (high in the league tables) had a greater proportion of PhD teachers than schools lower in the league tables (who I don't think had any really)...take from that what you will, I reckon that was more down to the PhD teachers CHOOSING to apply for jobs at 'good' schools.

I your username bitterbutter!

What was that smiley? (crossed)

Oooh - good luck! (luck) Don't you just love the sentence "a number of academics will question him about his work before any doctorate is awarded"