Internet Search Using search engines requires both skill and intuition. This excellent tutorial from the UC Berkeley Library introduces you to the Internet and WWW, teaches you how to analyze a topic, chose a search tool, and use a variety of search tools. Bare Bones 101 a basic tutorial on searching the Web, from University of South Carolina, Breaufort, librarian Prof. Ellen Chamberlein. It is frequently useful to see how someone else approaches the subject. If you still have some unanswered questions, or are unclear about certain topics, go to Internet 101 and do a quick review.
Some people use the Internet almost entirely for email.
Even if that is not your major goal, you will probably be sending and receiving an increasing amount of email so you should look at this A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood. At this point I would like to introduce you to a major site compiled by Jack Corse at Simon Fraser University, Canada. It has recently been updated. Go to this Introduction and Guide and look at at least two sites he suggests for evaluating websites. This section is included for those of you who are interested in learning more about building websites of your own.