A writing prompt is the topic or instructions you need to have in order to complete a writing task that is usually handed out by some specific date as part of school or college. Considering writing task are commonly used to evaluate academical progress and get grades based on them, you might want to understand properly how to complete the writing task. In this case, the writing prompt asks you to compare two texts an essay by John Muir and a poem by William Wordsworth in terms of the authors' views and the way they relate to nature. This means while writing you will to understand the features of each type of text, the author's view in their texts and then compare the idea of it. Considering it is necessary for you to understand the genre of each of these texts, as each genre uses different literary devices to present the authors' ideas you will need to study the features of the essay and poetry because these are the genres the text you are asked to analyzed belong to.
