"confusing explanation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe an explanation that is hard to understand. For example: The professor's confusing explanation made it difficult for the students to understand the material.
In Trenton, a spokesman for the attorney general offered a confusing explanation.
Despite your long and confusing explanation, it is clear that an Op-Ed editor's initial proposed insertion into Capt.
The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, this week offered a rather confusing explanation of the decision to allow Lehman to collapse.
Romney's muddled and confusing explanation and half-apologies only reinforce concerns that there is also something missing from the core of the man: sincerity and sensitivity.
This production drops all the confusing explanation of how twins and others were separated in a play that gleefully multiplies doubles from first act to last.
Viewing the fallout, the political columnist Peter Riddell wrote in The Times of London today, "The Mittal affair has damaged the government more because of the changing and confusing explanations offered than because anything inherently wrong was done".
Some teachers, even several learning materials also use incorrect explanations or confuse explanation with description (Horwood 1988; Tang and Chiu 2010).
Surely Professor Dawkins was here confusing scientific explanation with metaphysical interrogation.
"Although materialists will be happy to explain to us how the nervous system functions," he writes, "and hope we shall confuse this explanation... with an account of the character of consciousness and how consciousness came to be, they are not a step closer to crossing that threshold" than Rilke is.
Level 3. Incomplete or confused scientific explanations: Students show awareness of important scientific principles and of models at smaller and larger scales, such as atoms and molecules and relationships among populations in ecosystems.
Cool ideas, confusing definitions, (un clear explanations of methods, strong justifications for both design and experimental choices, notation that's useful or not, good-bad-missing related work, figures that are readable or not, helpful or not, clever turns of phrase, typos, strong and weak arguments, etc. Anything I notice, I note.
