Importing text from an ODT, as mentioned above, is a good way to get text into your Scribus document - and in certain circumstances you can also preserve paragraph styles with a bit of work - but be aware that there may be a problem with ODT files exported from Word. See this post for details:
http://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,1065.0.htmlThe "safer" route seems to be, as Nermander first suggested, opening the DOC in OpenOffice or LibreOffice and saving as ODT there rather than trusting the Word export function. Then you can use the "Get Text" function of a text frame to import the text, again as already said.
However, if you want to start from a "cleaner" text, you can - as Wena mentioned - copy and paste the text from Word to either the Story Editor or directly into a frame.
Personally, if there isn't too much text, I'd go for the copy/paste route - possibly via a basic text editor - just to make sure there were no strange character/style issues. (Sometimes you can't be sure exactly what the copy function actually copies and it might bring something along that messes something up in the future. It might be a little over the top but at least I know that it's just text that's going in there and no hidden control characters or whatever.)
P.S. I'd agree with Nermander that you should have a look at some of the tutorials first. They'll show how different Scribus is to a word processor and you'll find things much easier afterwards.