Welcome to the forum! Sometimes finding exactly what you are looking for is harder than just risking the wrath of people by asking again [[)] Don't worry about it, It's not a big deal at all.
Before you run out and buy a bunch of books, try the free route!
FSM has a PDF file for beginning modelers. It can be downloaded from this page:
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/default.aspx?c=ss&id=33
Testors has some good modeling guides for downloading here: http://www.testors.com/hobbyist_guides.asp and FSM has a good group of articles here: http://www.finescale.com/fsm/dynamic/browse.aspx?sub=13 Some of them are references to back issues of FSM but many of them are available online and can be downloaded. You don't have to bookmark the page, just look in the "Browse By Subject" link in the green column to the left.
Also this forum has thousands of bits of information. If you can't find what you are looking for, just ask and someone will have an answer.