What is one benefit of paraphrasing?
a. you can use the exact words of the source in order to better explain your main idea.
b. you can make connections between ideas by controlling how they're presented.
c. you can reflect the biases or prejudices of the original source's author.
d. you can avoid doing excess amounts of research about your topic.

The answer is B. (You can make connections between ideas by controlling how they're presented.)

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The second alternative is correct (B).

The paraphrase is a resource of textual interpretation that consists in the reformulation of a text, changing the original words and expressions, but maintaining the central idea of the information. Intertextuality is one of the main characteristics of paraphrase, because for it to exist, it is necessary to "link" with another text, which serves as an allusion to the production of the new content.

In this context, when you paraphrase an author, you can use your ideas in another context that you find plausible, controlling how you present them.

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

the answer is:

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