There's a pdf floating around called Understanding Digital Raw Capture, which I think was written by Bruce Fraser for Adobe. It's not particularly high-tech or complicated, and that's probably the beauty of it.
I'm not always the most technical-minded guy on the block, but this article doesn't get too bogged down with details, and does a good job explaining what exactly RAW is and why it's a useful tool for photography. It also describes the basic process of how digital cameras capture their images and record them to digital file formats, which is cool because understanding how your camera actually works is probably just a good thing to know.
You can get the pdf file here.
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