Answer:
Scan your draft to catch typing mistakes.
Review your word choice to ensure the writing is in formal style.
Explanation:
During the editing stage, you need to make sure that your work has no typing errors and the word choices that are being used must convey the exact meaning that needs to be conveyed.
Editing stage also requires you to see if the paragraphs are in the order they need to be and the quotations are properly cited according to the given citation rules.
Answer:
to better understand and appreciate their heritage
Explanation:
In the last line of the excerpt he wants these artists to "cause the smug Negro middle class to turn from their white, respectable, ordinary books and papers to catch a glimmer of their won beauty." In this line "their own beauty" is the heritage of African Americans. The "near intellectuals" aren't musicians and writers. They are African Americans who are paying attention more to white culture than their own history.