The phrase "a rather scattered" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is disorganized or lacking coherence, often in reference to thoughts, ideas, or information.
Example: "Her presentation was a rather scattered collection of ideas that left the audience confused."
Alternatives: "somewhat disorganized" or "fairly chaotic".
Notwithstanding the expanding body of literature on WFD implementation, a rather scattered single case study approach seems to predominate.
The Hakka language of southernmost Jiangxi and northeastern Guangdong has a rather scattered pattern of distribution.
The Radical Party reacted to the election of its most unlikely parliamentary candidate with a rather scattered and muted enthusiasm.
Angular dependence of FWHM of Sm0.5Pr0.5FeO3 substantially resembles the behaviour of the parent SmFeO3 compound, whereas a rather scattered behaviour is observed for the Sm0.5Nd0.5FeO3 sample (Fig. 2, inset).
This somehow leads them to a daytrip at the Museum of Natural History where they wander the exhibits, make jokes ("I wonder if turtles would eat chocolate turtles?") and in a rather scattered way remember painful episodes from their childhood and adult life.
In England from the Anglo-Saxon period into the early modern, secular and religious rituals were recorded in a rather scattered manner in manuscripts.
The shires selected for waste processing are rather scattered as a function of the resources available and the already installed facilities.
The cities with the highest levels of income inequality aren't limited to a single region, but are rather scattered across the country, recent Census data finds.
If signal and noise are of equal size, for a 5-choice optimization (60, 100, 140, 180, 220 ms), replicate AV delay optima are rarely identical but rather scattered with a standard deviation of 45 ms.
She goes on to enumerate some of the aspects of effective independent assignments, like "retrieval practice," which basically means doing practice tests to reinforce learning and commit it to memory, and "interleaving," in which problems are not grouped into sets by type, but rather scattered throughout an assignment, which makes the brain work harder to grasp the material.
The result is an occasionally disturbing portrait, though at times rather scattered.
