Foreword from the Editor

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I am excited to open the new edition of our journal publication with the Special Column of Rhetoric and Composition guest edited by Prof. Donghong Liu. This Special Column has four papers. Donghong Liu and Fang Wan studied the use of Toulmin elements and argument complexity in Chinese EFL students’ English argumentative essays; Keith Lloyd critiqued the imperialistic dichotomy of “native speaker/standard” forms of British and American English by applying a Conceptual Metaphorical Analysis of the native speaker/owner metaphor; using visualisation as a learning strategy, Yong Yi reported on how visualisation training might affect a group of Chinese intermediate EFL learners’ narrative writing; and Qi Fang, Lu Yu, and Jiang Cheng examined features of rhetorical organization of English argumentative essays written by Chinese university EFL students.

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