I guess the problem is not giving credit to the people you researched. -Tom
The way that sentence “should have” been written is Larson (put year in between parentheses) suggests/argues/contends/indicates/etc. that Mueller............. If something in the paragraph is representing to be a direct quote, then that statement should be put inside double quotation marks”
If she did that, we would not be having this problem. On the other hand, one wonders what her Dissertation Director and committee were doing. All of this should have been cleaned up during her defense and before it went to the Graduate School at Columbia